Housekeeping null 2>&1 in /dev

only · May 25, 2018, 12:26am

Hello,

Does anyone know how to housekeeping the null 2>&1 file in /dev?
its fill up my system, please help.

Thanks

Don_Cragun · May 25, 2018, 2:44am

Find the process that is writing to it. Kill that process. Remove the file. And, fix the redirection in the process that was writing to it before you restart that process.

The process will be (or will have been) running as root. There will be a redirection in that process that looks something like:

> "/dev/null 2>&1"

It should be something more like one of the following:

> "/dev/null" 2>&1
> /dev/null 2>&1

only · May 25, 2018, 2:53am

don cragun:

Find the process that is writing to it. Kill that process. Remove the file. And, fix the redirection in the process that was writing to it before you restart that process.

The process will be (or will have been) running as root. There will be a redirection in that process that looks something like:
> "/dev/null 2>&1"
It should be something more like one of the following:
> "/dev/null" 2>&1
> /dev/null 2>&1

Thanks Don for your help.

bakunin · May 25, 2018, 3:46am

See: [Tip] /dev filling because of malformed IBM script

I hope this helps.

bakunin