Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Withrow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: :- Why not just remove it? I re-installed linux_base and that *did* remove it. And, as Terry suggests, acroread works fine without it. In fact there is no /compat/linux/dev directory at all after the reinstall. I don't have a clue how that file got created in the first

Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null

2002-10-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Mark Murray wrote: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 2 17:59 /compat/linux/dev/null > > Huh??! A _file_??! It should be a device! Definitely wrong. > > Hmm??? Doing "chmod 666 /compat/linux/dev/null" fixes the problem. > Temporarily only. A better workaround is "rm /compat/linux/dev/null

Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null

2002-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:53:37AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: > Hmm??? Doing "chmod 666 /compat/linux/dev/null" fixes the problem. > > This looks like a bug in the linux-base port. I'll file a PR. The port already does this: # # Make sure we have a /dev/null in the chrooted environment.

Linux compatibility and /dev/null

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Withrow
Hi: I was trying to get my linux-mozilla-1.1 to spawn off acroread when I click on PDF links, but I kept getting this: /usr/local/bin/acroread5: /dev/null: Permission denied I played with the acroread5 script and added, at the beginning, echo "hi" > /dev/null and got: + echo hi /home/

Re: Linux compatibility and /dev/null

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Murray
> What gives? ls -l /dev/null says: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel2, 2 Oct 9 12:45 /dev/null As it should. > That's groovy. But what about /compat/linux/dev/null? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 2 17:59 /compat/linux/dev/null Huh??! A _file_??! It should be a device! > Hmm?