On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:49:22 +0400, Jake Anderson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>One of our LPARs OMPROUTE task fails with message as
>EZZ7974I could not open /DEV/NULL

Try echo 'abc' > /dev/null to verify it's working correctly. Try echo 'abc' > 
/dev/console and verify abc appears in the syslog.

Uppercase /DEV/NULL makes me suspect you typed this in somewhere. Most likely 
in the proc possibly to suppress some messages. Check the config to see if it's 
there.

Does /dev contain the expected file (e.g. console and null)? If you ls -al, are 
the correct RWX codes displayed?

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