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["Guy R.Loucks" <gstmgmtc@optushome.com.au>]

Arrgh... tried to send this from the wrong account... trying again...

> From: Guy R.Loucks <loucksg@optushome.com.au>
> To: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
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> Subject: HylaFAX on OSX
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> People,
>
> We have been quite successful getting HylaFAX running on OS/X, the
> receive fax works great. We made the following changes in the
> config.site:
>
> GETTY="BSD"			# type of getty support (auto|BSD|SysV)
> CXXFILE="-x c++"			# options for proper C++ processing
>
> CONFIG_SOCKARGLENTYPE="int"		# call-by-ref arg type for socket funcs
>
> We can get everything running except, hfaxd.
>
> I am not certain we need HFAXD, as we only ever need to forward faxes
> which are received. I am uncertain of how to send them directly to faxq.
>
> We found a couple of FAQ's similar for Solaris and AIX, however none of
> these seem to resolve the problems.
>
> It appears that hfaxd, is creating a file in the dev/null, not a device
> special file. mknod seems to be giving us some grief, but this could
> just be some next/openstep anachranisms I am forgetting. When we link
> /dev/null to dev/null, we get our error we had before we changes the
> CONFIG_SOCKARGLENTYPE above. We are contemplating reverting this config
> change.
>
> Thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
>
> This is the latest beta.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Guy
>
> Jun 18 22:22:43 localhost HylaFAX[1170]: Could not create dev/null: File
> exists
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   3 uucp  uucp   264 Jun  4 22:17 .
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp   806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel    0 Jun  4 22:17 null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# rm /dev/null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   3 uucp  uucp    58 Jun  4 22:17 .
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp   806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel    0 Jun  4 22:17 null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#
>
> [localhost:~] root# cd /var/spool/fax
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  264 Jun 18 22:25 .
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp  806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ln -s /dev/null dev/null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev/null
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 uucp  uucp  9 Jun 18 22:29 dev/null -> /dev/null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# stat dev/null
>
> OK? pstat dev/null? no
> stat: Command not found.
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# file dev/null
> dev/null: symbolic link to /dev/null
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# file /dev/null
> /dev/null: character special (3/2)
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#
>
>
> ---
> Guy R. Loucks			|   "Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
> "These opinions and 	|    The real geniuses simply have their bright
>   ideas are my own,   		|    ideas closer together."       G.C.
> Lichtenberg
>   what few there are."		|
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> People,
>
>
> We have been quite successful getting HylaFAX running on OS/X, the
> receive fax works great. We made the following changes in the
> config.site:
>
>
> GETTY=3D"BSD"			# type of getty support (auto|BSD|SysV)
>
> CXXFILE=3D"-x c++"			# options for proper C++ =
> processing
>
>
> CONFIG_SOCKARGLENTYPE=3D"int"		# call-by-ref arg type for =
> socket funcs
>
>
> <fixed><smaller>We can get everything running except, hfaxd.
>
>
> I am not certain we need HFAXD, as we only ever need to forward faxes
> which are received. I am uncertain of how to send them directly to
> faxq.
>
>
> We found a couple of FAQ's similar for Solaris and AIX, however none
> of these seem to resolve the problems.
>
>
> It appears that hfaxd, is creating a file in the dev/null, not a
> device special file. mknod seems to be giving us some grief, but this
> could just be some next/openstep anachranisms I am forgetting. When we
> link /dev/null to dev/null, we get our error we had before we changes
> the CONFIG_SOCKARGLENTYPE above. We are contemplating reverting this
> config change.
>
>
> Thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
>
>
> This is the latest beta.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Guy
>
>
> Jun 18 22:22:43 localhost HylaFAX[1170]: Could not create dev/null:
> File exists
>
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
>
> total 0
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 uucp  uucp   264 Jun  4 22:17 .
>
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp   806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
>
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel    0 Jun  4 22:17 null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# rm /dev/null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
>
> total 0
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 uucp  uucp    58 Jun  4 22:17 .
>
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp   806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
>
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel    0 Jun  4 22:17 null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#=20
>
>
> [localhost:~] root# cd /var/spool/fax
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev
>
> total 0
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  264 Jun 18 22:25 .
>
> drwxrwxrwx  25 uucp  uucp  806 Jun 13 18:45 ..
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ln -s /dev/null dev/null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# ls -al dev/null
>
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 uucp  uucp  9 Jun 18 22:29 dev/null -> /dev/null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# stat dev/null
>
>
> OK? pstat dev/null? no
>
> stat: Command not found.
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# file dev/null
>
> dev/null: symbolic link to /dev/null
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# file /dev/null
>
> /dev/null: character special (3/2)
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root# /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#=20
>
> [localhost:/var/spool/fax] root#=20
>
>
>
> </smaller></fixed>---
>
> Guy R. Loucks			|   "Everyone is a genius at least once =
> a year.
>
> "These opinions and 	|    The real geniuses simply have their 
> bright=20=
>
>
>  ideas are my own,   		|    ideas closer together."       G.C.
> Lichtenberg
>
>  what few there are."		|
>
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