>
> Not answering your mod_perl question here, but I believe this
> suggestion in the guide isn't useful advice in any event --
> this isn't 'echo'ing to /dev/null as su (root); rather it's 'echo'ing
> a line as su, and you (normal user) are redirecting that output to
> /dev/null.
>
> I.e., the grouping of that command is like so (yeah, I know, this is
> in no way intended to be real shell syntax, just to show the
> semantics...):
>
> (sudo echo) > /dev/null
>
> rather than:
>
> sudo (echo >/dev/null)
>
> Not sure what is trying to be accomplished by either of these, but in
> the interests of clarity in the guide, I think this ought to be either
> corrected or removed entirely. I'll volunteer to make the changes, if
> someone can clarify exactly what the intended result is.
>
> Stas? What do you say? Am I missing something here?
I don't remember why the 'sudo' is there, the file is crw-rw-rw, so there
is no need for sudo at all. I've removed the sudo part.
>
> <Steve Reppucci>
>
>
> On 28 Mar 2001, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > >From the mod_perl guide:
> >
> > syntax error at /dev/null line 1, near "line arguments:"
> > Execution of /dev/null aborted due to compilation errors.
> > parse: Undefined error: 0
> > There is a chance that your /dev/null device is broken. Try:
> > % sudo echo > /dev/null
> >
> > This is exactly the problem I have been getting when starting Apache
> > mod_perl, however the suggested fix does not work for me. We're on a
> > HPUX 11 machine. Is there another way to solve this problem? As I
> > understand it, if /dev/null is being used as the $0 argument to the
> > handler, perhaps I could somehow explicitly set it to another (empty)
> > file? How would I go about that?
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
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