Re: Help: hfaxd exits with "cant stat /dev/null"

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Johannes Beck wrote:

> "Jun 18 19:52:09 cygnus HylaFAX[1014]: stat(/dev/null): No such file or
> directory"
> 
> /dev/null exists, and has the correct rights. So what does this message
> means?

The hfaxd does a chroot before acting: ${SPOOL}/dev/null is missing.
hfaxd should be able to create this on the fly. Have you checked the
permissions of hfaxd? It should be suid. Running the insallation from
source should also create this correctly.


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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