On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, David Lancaster wrote:
> > Following your directions, I did checkpc -f which fixed a few on the
> > niggling permission errors. It did, however, give me an error on my
> > /dev/null file (I just created an empty document with ae named null.
> > additionally, it says "cannot open log" but then again, I haven't done any
> > printing with the spooler, so it is no surprise I have nothing in log.
>
> Well, /dev/null shouldn't be just a normal file....it may end up working for
> you, but I believe that there is a correct way to create one (possibly with
> mknod or something, I'm not sure as it's outside my current area of
> expertise). The log file thing is troubling, perhaps you should check the
> permissions on the log file.
You can make null device with the following command:
mknod -m 666 filename c 1 3
Replace filename with whatever directory/filename you want to call it.
This creates a character device (c) of major type 1 and minor type 3 with
permissions 666.
Andy
