Re: Help: hfaxd says "cant stat /dev/null" (2nd try)

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Johannes Beck wrote:

> > hfaxd exits immediately with the following message in syslog:
> > 
> > "Jun 18 19:52:09 cygnus HylaFAX[1014]: stat(/dev/null): No such file 
> > directory"
> > 
[snip]
> - /var/spool/fax/dev/ is empty. What should be there? Can I set this up 
> manually? The error message in syslog references "/dev/null".

As someone else here mentioned recently to your original mail-query,
you have to create /var/spool/fax/dev/null. Look up the major/minor
numbers of /dev/null and recreate it in /var/spool/fax/dev.
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