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From: Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt AT princeton DOT edu>
Subject:  Re: Whither /dev/null ?
Date:  Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:13:01 -0400
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> I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the
> scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users
> create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because
> every script would have to check for this...
> 
> Any advice?
> Puzzled about nothing.
> J
> 
> 

Did you try it without doing mkdir /dev first? It should still work fine.

Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~
$ ls -l /dev
ls: cannot access /dev: No such file or directory

Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~
$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 Lewis None 1, 3 Sep 14 11:12 /dev/null


-Lewis


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