restoring /dev/null file

[Ron Bromwell]

I deleted the /dev/null file. I tried to rcp it from another machine, but received a message stating it was not a plain file. I tried to restore it from tape, the file came back, but it is a plain file. How do i get the file back to its original state?

Thanks,
Ron

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

As root:

mknod /dev/null c 3 0x02
chown bin:bin /dev/null
chmod 666 /dev/null

[Patrick Wallek]

This should work:

# mknod /dev/null c 3 0x000002
# chown bin:bin /dev/null
chmod 666 /dev/null

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Ron,

Follow these steps,

# mknod /dev/null c 3 0x000002

# chown bin:bin /dev/null

# chmod 666 /dev/null


Robert-Jan.

[Ron Bromwell]

Thanks all.
That worked.

[doug hosking]

Another solution:

# insf -d mm
insf: Installing special files for pseudo driver mm