On 11/3/07, Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just a bit surprised that no one can give me any clues as to what > that error is. It's almost as if /dev/null is trying to execute, but > how can that be? I'm stumped, hence my post here.
config is reporting that its parser saw invalid syntax when it tried to open and parse the contents of /dev/null. /dev/null is _supposed_ to appear as an empty file when opened. An empty file would be valid for what config is parsing at that point. That suggests that your /dev/null is not actually set up correctly. Indeed, I can reproduce the error message by replacing /dev/null with a non-empty file: # cd /dev # mv null n # (umask 0; echo blah balh > null) # suspend $ config GENERIC /dev/null:1: syntax error *** Stop. $ fg # mv n null # suspend $ config GENERIC Don't forget to run "make depend" $ So, what's the output of "ls -l /dev/null" ? It _should_ be: crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Nov 3 14:12 /dev/null If not, then do "cd /dev && MAKEDEV std" as root, then try to track down what you did as root that remove the original correct /dev/null to begin with. (I sent you a short version of the above off-list, but apparently it didn't though.) Philip Guenther
