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Re: /compat/linux/dev/null


From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:18:25 +0530 (India Standard Time)

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I'm trying to get OpenOffice to run. It was giving a permission error 
> on /dev/null. Since it's a Linux binary, I checked the one in /compat/linux, 
> and found that it was writable only by root. It appears to be a regular file, 
> rather than a character device. All other files in /compat/linux/dev/ are 
> symlinks. Why isn't null?
> 
> Pierre
> -- 
> 

There is a FreeBSD port available which works absolutely fine.

Would running that version help you than struggling with 
Linux-isms ?


--
thanks
Saifi.



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