Seen on a web forum aimed at helping Solaris users. Such a gem, had to 
share it:

> dre1988 (MIS)  Apr 25, 2002
> I tried a
>
> cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmpx
> 
> This should send the file to /dev/null and create a 0 byte file for
> wtmpx.
> However, the file system is still 100% full. Is there a way to empty
> /dev/null? I've done a rebbot already.

The real question is, is there a way to *fill* /dev/null, and what happens
when that happens? heheh

--m@

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