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Re: Can not reach server at host "localhost", port 4559.



On Thu, 4 May 2000, Marina Daniels wrote:

> Tim:
> "null" and "tcp" exist but I don't have "socksys" - are you sure I need this on solaris?
> If so, can you do an "ls -l" of it, so I can see the major,minor numbers I need to create it? Ta

I don't have access to a solaris machine.
I was looking at one of my UnixWare machines.
Opps, I was thinking they were setup when faxsetup was run but it turns
out that hfaxd creates them if needed on startup before doing a chroot.
So if socksys isn't there hfaxd doesn't need it on solaris.

> and 
> Ulrich, I don't have a hylafax entry in /etc/inetd.conf
> Thanks to you both
> 
> Marina
> 
> 
> Marina Daniels
> System Administrator
> TMD & Computing Services
> Department of Premier & Cabinet
> email : Marina.Daniels@cs.tas.gov.au
> phone: 03 6233 7644
> 
> >>> Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.net> 02/05/00 3:57:06 >>>
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Marina Daniels wrote:
> 
> > I have hylafax-v4.0pl2 installed on solaris 2.6.
> > 
> > I first set it up 6 months ago and was able to send faxes with it, but now when I go to send a fax I get the same error message I get below with "faxstat -v"
> > 
> > "Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
> > Can not reach server at host "localhost", port 4559."
> > 
> > In /var/adm/messages it says:
> > May  1 14:46:28 falcon HylaFAX[21160]: HylaFAX INET: socket: Permission denied
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Just a guess here.  Check the permissions of the dev files in
> /path_to_HylaFax_spool_directory/spool/dev
> You should have null, tcp, and socksys and they should be 666.
> 
> 
> > May  1 14:46:28 falcon HylaFAX[21160]: HylaFAX INET: Unable to init server, giving up after 5 tries.
> >  
> [snip]
> > 
> 
> 

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