>Number:         15597
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       touch /dev/null does not work when /dev is on NFS
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 13 04:10:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        current (cvs updateted Feb 13, 2002)
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD krups.aprisoft.de 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (KRUPS_WS) #1: Wed Feb 13 12:25:49 CET 2002     martin@beasty.aprisoft.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/KRUPS_WS sparc
>Description:
When trying to build a pkg as an ordinary user I ran into this:

=> Linking xpm files into /usr/pkgsrc/x11/rxvt/work/.buildlink.
touch: /dev/null: Inappropriate file type or format
*** Error code 123

This machine is diskless, /dev is on / which is mounted via NFS.

NFS server is an i386 running 1.5.3_Alpha. The device nodes are correct (for sparc):

crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  3, 2 Feb 13 12:52 /dev/null

The problem does not occur for root.
>How-To-Repeat:
mount /dev on NFS, then try:

martin@krups > touch /dev/null
touch: /dev/null: Inappropriate file type or format
martin@krups > su
Password:
krups# touch /dev/null
krups#

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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