Re: Problems with HylaFax 4.0pl1 on Solaris 2.5.1

[Dani Pardo <dani@minerva.enpl.es>]

On 19 Jul 1997, Morten Skjelland wrote:

>
>If I do this, I get the same result as I got the first time.  dev/tcp
>and dev/null is made, but the open of dev/tcp fails.  What I can't
>understand, is that it works when I loopback mount /dev and /devices
>into the spool-directory, and doesn't work if I copy the device
>entries from /dev and /devices using cp -a, tar or ufsdump.
>
 Entries in /dev are character devices, not ordinary files.. so a normal 
cp won't work. I have Solaris 2.5 too, try 

 mknod null c 13 2
 mknod tcp 11 42
 
 under /dev directory of course. These two files are owned by root. gid
uucp.

 Hope this helps.