> I have no idea what I did to have /dev/null changed. I also had this problem with /dev/null once. In my case I used "mysql" as root on the command line and had "MYSQL_HISTFILE=/dev/null" in .profile. That replaced /dev/null with the MySQL history file.
If you also use MySQL, then more info is here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117506805619129&w=2 (and in the following post). Tas.