marc at marc.watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) writes: >mknod c 2 2 /dev/null >as root of course. you mean mknod /dev/null c 2 2 of course. good thing we had more than one aix machine--have you ever tried looking up the major and minor numbers of /dev/null in the documentation? --bw wohler at sap-ag.de