[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recreate /dev/null

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:00:52PM +0400, Alexander Eremin wrote:
> mknod /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null c 13 2 
mknod: `/devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null': File exists

> chown root:sys /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null 
chown: changing ownership of `/devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null': Not owner

> chmod 666 /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null 
chmod: changing permissions of `/devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null': No owner

> cd /dev ln -s ../devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null null
ln: creating symbolic link `null': No such file or directory

It seems the file does not exist but resists being created...

R

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