>When one of my users try to:
>
>any_command | /dev/nul
>
>the response is either that the file /dev/nul doesn't exist or that he
>doesn't have permissions to do that.
>
>If the same user tries to:
>
>any_command | /dev/null
> ^^^^
>
>it works fine.
>
>I'm surpriced. Why is /dev/nul reserved for root? What could a user harm
>by sending stuff to /dev/nul ? And what's the difference between
>/dev/nul and /dev/null ?
>
>Regards
>Gustav
The problem that there isn't a file called /dev/nul. It MUST be
/dev/null. The reason why /dev/nul works for root is because it
has permission to write in the /dev directory and it creates a file
called nul. If you look at /dev/nul, you'll see that it is a file.
DELETE IT.
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