Re: [hylafax-users] dev/null

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

/usr/local/spool/hylafax/ seems a bit unique.  Maybe it's looking for 
dev/null in /var/spool/hylafax/

Lee.


Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:

> I've copied all my binaries for 4.2.2 to a customer's machine which is
> running exactly the same OS as I am.
>
> Hfaxd refuses to start with the message:
>
> 	Could not create dev/null: No such file or directory
>
> in /var/adm/syslog.
>
> But I do have a /usr/local/spool/hylafax/dev/directory containing:
>
>    -rw-rw-rw-  1 root uucp     0 Sep  6 10:36 null
>    -rw-rw-rw-  1 root uucp     0 Sep  6 10:36 socksys
>    -rw-rw-rw-  1 root uucp     0 Sep  6 10:36 tcp
>
> The permissions on the way down are:
>
>    drwxrwxrwx 24 root sys   2048 Oct 14 15:00 /usr/local@
>    drwxrwxr-x  4 root sys     96 Oct 14 14:05 /usr/local/spool
>    drwxr-xr-x 17 uucp uucp  2048 Sep 27 16:17 /usr/local/spool/hylafax
>    drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp    96 Sep  6 10:36 /usr/local/spool/hylafax/dev
>
> So why does hfaxd need to re-create its chroot copy of dev/null?
>
>
> Also: why is the message occuring in /var/adm/syslog when I've specified
> local 5 as the LogFacility, pointing to /var/adm/hylafaxlog?
>
>  


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