Re: [hylafax-users] dev/null

[Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@xxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard typed (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:30:29AM -0700):
| /usr/local/spool/hylafax/ seems a bit unique.  Maybe it's looking for 
| dev/null in /var/spool/hylafax/

Well, on the system on which I am typing, and on several others where
I've installed hylafax, there is no /var/spool/hylafax; all the usual
modem files, bin, etc, FIFOs, doneq, etc., live quite happily in
/usr/local/spool/hylafax; etc.cache says "SPOOL='/usr/local/spool/hylafax".

| 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?
| >
| > 
| >

-- 
JP

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