/compat/linux/dev/null

[Saifi Khan]

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 ?


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thanks
Saifi.