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osx-elcapitandev-null
CertifcateJunky
CertifcateJunky

Reputation: 171

/dev/null No such file or directory

I run El Capitan OS X and am trying to use /dev/null however when I do anything with it, for example ls:

ls -l /dev/null
ls: /dev/null: No such file or directory

I've also tried:

sudo mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

However that outputs the following:

mknod: illegal option -- m
usage: mknod [-F format] name [b | c] major minor
       mknod [-F format] name [b | c] major unit subunit
       mknod name [b | c] number
       mknod name w

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7526

Answers (2)

arcadius
arcadius

Reputation: 66

А similar problem occurs with chroot usage, f.e.

#!/bin/bash
mkdir ./newroot
cp -R /bin /lib /lib64 /usr /etc ./newroot
chroot ./newroot

There is no /dev/null in the new enviroment, which leads to errors. One way to fix it is creating /dev/ directory, so piping to /dev/null is just writing to the ordinary text file /dev/null.

Upvotes: 0

CertifcateJunky
CertifcateJunky

Reputation: 171

I was able to use the answer provided from this question along with the question itself. The fix for this issue is as follows:

sudo -s << _EOF 
mknod /dev/null c 3 2
chmod 666 /dev/null
_EOF

Upvotes: 1

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