Re: [hylafax-users] why hfaxd wants new dev/null

[Patrice Fournier <pfournier@loups.net>]

Quoting Daeron <daeron@fandom.net>:

>  So does anyone know why hfaxd would want to create a new dev/null
> instead of using /dev/null ?

Because /dev/null is not available in the chroot'd environment and
according to hfaxd.c++:
    /*
     * Craft a private /dev/null in the chroot'd filesystem
     * for use by syslog because some syslogs require this
     * to function correctly.
     */


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Patrice Fournier
pfournier@loups.net

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