[Sunhelp] Can't create /dev/null?

[Mark C. Langston]

On 20 December 1999, Kristoffer Pearson <kpearson at emerald.omg.org> wrote:


>I'm running an Ultra5 with Solaris 2.7.  If I compile and install any
>version of gcc, things complain about not being able to access
>/dev/null, and if I reboot the machine I get:
>
>/sbin/rcS: /dev/null: cannot create
>
>If I boot from the CD, and exit from the install program, /dev/null is
>there, mode 666.  Help?
>


The device special file's been replaced by a normal file.  rm /dev/null,
then reboot -- -r.

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Mark C. Langston
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Systems Admin
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