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[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:07:54 -0400
>>> brian wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It means some script somewhere did an rm -f on /dev/null
>>>>> then later some other script redirected output to /dev/null
>>>>> thus creating it as a regular file.
>>>> It looks more like a typo, as another poster said (one L).
>>>
>>> Could be, but I had /dev/null deleted on a machine once and
>>> the ensuing fun was really spectacular :-).
>>>
>>> Doing "whatever > /dev/null" wasn't too bad, but when
>>> someone said "whatever < /dev/null" amazingly random things
>>> could happen.
>>>
>> The point is, it is not MY scripts doing this! I have had
>> this bugger for quite some time on F9 and it does not
>> go away! Grr. I just deleted it every time rkhunter
>> reports it. Probably just ignore the darn thing....
> Since there is this nsdc: found in the text, I looked it up:
>
>> NSDC(8) BSD System Manager’s Manual NSDC(8)
>>
>> NAME
>> nsdc - Name Server Daemon (NSD) control script
> So perhaps somewhere in there is the offending /dev/nul script 
> somewhere...
> any idea where to look?
Hmm...  I have not seen this before... is this normal?


In /etc/init.d/nsd, there is code in two places that uses:

start()
[...]
/usr/sbin/nsdc rebuild >/dev/null 2>%1
[...]
and

stop()
[...]
/usr/sbin/nsdc patch > /dev/null 2>%1
[...]

what is this:  2>%1  <--  should the % be & as in 2>&1 ???