Re: Problems with HylaFax 4.0pl1 on Solaris 2.5.1

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

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On 18 Jul 1997, Morten Skjelland wrote:

> Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> writes:
> 
> | Some other device which /var/spool/fax/dev/tcp uses doesn't exist;
> | hence the cryptic error. For example, on SCO OS 5 systems, you also
> | have to create /var/spool/fax/dev/socksys. I'm not sure about
> | Solaris, but you could check that out and see.
> 
> It dit not work when I did:
> 
> $ cd /local/fax/spool
> $ cp -av /dev /devices .
> 
> But it worked when I did:
> 
> $ mount -F lofs /dev /local/fax/spool/dev
> $ mount -F lofs /devices /local/fax/spool/devices
> 
> If someone figures it out, please let me know. :)
> 
> Morten

Hmm. I remember when we first found problems like this for
SunOS. hfaxd, when it runs, is supposed to make the $SPOOLDIR/dev/*
devices as needed.  *HOWEVER*: if there is already a file there, it
will fail. And symbolic links will definitely fail. We saw this
because the *.tar files I created for SunOS had the devices and the
pipes because I used GNU tar, which could handle them, but SunOS tar
could not and created simple files when people unpacked them.

Let me suggest that you delete what is currently in $SPOOLDIR/dev, run
hfaxd by hand with the "hfaxd -d" option, and see what you get. If
that doesn't work, then use trace or strace on "hfaxd -d" to see
what you get and where it breaks.

"We" may need to add code to hfaxd to create or check for an additional
device there.

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

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