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weird /dev/null issue

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verland

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Ok, don't ask me how this happened but somehow /dev/null got replaced with a flat text file. The text contained something like "Cannot stop apache (281) no such process". So needless to say, I can't copy files to /dev/null and a lot of things don't work right.

I deleted the file but is there some way to recreate the files of the dev directory? Thanks!
 
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ok, I went to dev, did a
sudo ./MAKEDEV std

That seems to have done it. Probably extraneous since all I needed was null, but things seem ok now.
 
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