Re: [hylafax-users] dev/null

[Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@xxxxxxx>]

Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:55:42PM -0400):
| 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

There's the problem.  I unpacked with tar instead of BackupEdge, so the
device files got created as plain files, not device nodes.

-- 
JP

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