Re: flexfax: hylafax on Freebsd

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> if I start hfaxd with	hfaxd -I it dies and here is the syslog
> 
> Jun 17 11:15:29 testbed HylaFAX[80438]: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket

That's right; -I means that you are running it from inetd, in which case
standard in and out will point to a socket.  If you run it directly, with
this option, they won't.

> 
> if I start hfaxd with hfaxd -i 4559 -o 4557 -s 444 here is the syslog
> Jun 17 11:18:03 testbed HylaFAX[80457]: HylaFAX INET: bind (port 4559): Address
> already in use

Are you sure you didn't successfully start it.  If not, do netstat -a
to really confirm that there is no conflict.