[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recreate /dev/null

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Jim Klimov wrote:
> How about removing both /devices/pseudo/mm at null* and /dev/null and
> then trying devfsadm?

# rm /dev/null
rm: cannot remove `/dev/null': No such file or directory
# rm /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null
rm: cannot remove `/devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null': Operation not applicable
# devfsadm
devfsadm: cannot create link: /dev/null -> ../devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null.
max attempts exceeded

> Maybe also try to rsync (or tar/cpio/...) the device nodes from some
> other device tree, such as live media or an alternate BE, or via LAN
> with manually enabled networking?

I tried a few things, they didn't work either with no such file or
directory errors :(

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