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From: john@johnmad.austin.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: /dev/null 644
Keywords: dev null permission
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Date: 21 Feb 91 00:24:53 GMT
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>Can anyone explain how this happened ?  I am reporting it to IBM now.
>    Last login at Wed Feb 20 07:16:12 1991 on hft/0
>    -sh: /dev/null: 0402-011 Cannot create the specified file.
>    -sh: /dev/null: 0402-011 Cannot create the specified file.
>    $ ls -l /dev/null
>    -rw-r--r--   1 root     system         0 Feb 20 07:16 /dev/null

Yes, Likely it is a bug in the /usr/etc/lsnfsexp script. 
It should be line 100. 
        rm -rf ${TMP_FILE} >/dev/null 2>&1 /dev/null
(Whoops!)
        rm -rf ${TMP_FILE} >/dev/null 2>&1

John

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