Modified /dev/null by MailScanner?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 21:03:19 CET 2007


On 17/01/07, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com> wrote:
>
>
> Whoa!  You have a bigger problem than you think -- your ls output shows that
> /dev/null has been replaced by a normal file.  The null device is supposed
> to be a character special device file that discards anything written to it.
>
Good catch Trever... One can wonder how I missed that, especially
considering I actually looked at my own (how often does one do that?!
Not many times a decade:-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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