This is a report for busybox in RHEL 5.7 installer. As I think the issue is more related to busybox than RHELs installer, I'm reporting it here. Sorry I don't have access to newer version of busybox, to check does the issue exist in newer versions. If you look at below commands, you will see that my testing /dev/null2 file gets removed. This issue doesn't' happen with full version of wget from gnu.org -sh-3.2# wget --help BusyBox v1.2.0 (2011.07.22-08:19+0000) multi-call binary -sh-3.2# ls -l /dev/null2 ls: /dev/null2: No such file or directory -sh-3.2# mknod -m 0666 /dev/null2 c 1 3 -sh-3.2# ls -l /dev/null2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 0 1, 3 Dec 14 14:32 /dev/null2 -sh-3.2# wget -O /dev/null2 http://kck01dub/test Connecting to kck01dub[10.101.40.22]:80 wget: server returned error 404: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found -sh-3.2# ls -l /dev/null2 ls: /dev/null2: No such file or directory -sh-3.2#
Please test a newer version. It's just four steps: wget + tar xf + make defconfig + make. Really, five minute job. 1.2.x is very old. I am pretty sure this bug is fixed in later versions.
Just to be clear. I'm just reporting the bug, so you guys can check your newest code. I don't have resources to test this and I'm not planning to test latest version of busybox. Thanks.
Can't reproduce on v1.18. But behavior is slightly different, gnu wget truncates output file.