On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 07:13:59PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> > ls -l /dev/console\!
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 abr 27 13:55 /dev/console!
>
> That's strange.
>
> My copy of the console(4) man page doesn't mention this, and that's
> not exactly surprising since what you've got there is a regular file,
> not a char device like /dev/console.
>
> Best guess is this is the result of a rogue script or broken udev
> rule.  Any idea what program you ran around at 13:55 yesterday?
>
> Rich.
>

I'd vote "broken shell script that was trying to write to /dev/console, and
got it wrong, on April 27. "  Doing "ls -ld /dev/console*" will show  a
"/dev/console" that is a "character" device, not a plain file.
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