Re: flexfax: /dev/socksys

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

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jean-Rene Beauvais wrote:

> Bonjour,
> 
> I installed Hylafax v4.0 on sco unix ver4.2 and i have the following
> problem when running the daemons (using faxsetup) or use faxstat:
> 
> libsocket: open(/dev/socksys) failure:
> No such file or directory

For some reason your installation hasn't created a required device
file /var/spool/fax/dev/socksys. You can manually create the file
using mknod(S). Check out the device's type, major/minor numbers from
/dev/socksys and create one within /var/spool/fax/dev.
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