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/dev/null: Cannot create the specified file

853255Apr 6 2011 — edited Apr 6 2011
Hello Guys,
I've faced that issue on a Solaris 10 box, looking at the file attributes, I found:

rw-r--r-- root root null

when it's supposed to be:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 27 Sep 22 2010 /dev/null -> ../devices/pseudo/mm@0:null

The applied W/A was:

# cd /dev
# rm null
# ln -s ../devices/pseudo/mm@0:null null
# reboot

I would like to know the root cause of this very strange situation, I mean, what or who changed the /dev/null attributes? How can I investigate? Is there any related bug?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Regards,

Juan.
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