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What files are these please

 
David Santoro_1
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What files are these please

Can someone tell me what these files are for:

/var/jail/wp_internet/dev/null
/var/jail/wp_intranet/dev/null
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Jeff Schussele
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Re: What files are these please

My guess would be that these are null files that would probably be used by a virus detection routine to null out the contents of an infected file.
Run the file command against them to see what type of file they are.

Rgds,
Jeff Schussele
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