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From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: What the hell are fifos?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 23:07:46 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Alright. Another dumb question.
I've been trying to get some fax software going under
NetBSD-0.9.
I got flexfax-2.2.1 built, no problems there, using
gmake.
The problem is when I do this:
gmake install
And I get this:
mkfifo: //var/spool/fax/FIFO: Operation not supported
chown: //var/spool/fax/FIFO: No such file or directory
chgrp: //var/spool/fax/FIFO: No such file or directory
chmod: //var/spool/fax/FIFO: No such file or directory.
gmake: *** [makeDevices] Error 1
immediately after gmake tries this stunt:
sh ./port/bsdi/install.sh -u uucp -g dialer -m 600 -fifo \
-idb flexfax.sw.server -F /var/spool/fax FIFO
I'm actually using the FreeBSD configuration, which calls
the bsdi install script.. I had no problems during the build,
it's just the install...
So:
What's a FIFO? (man mkfifo yields nothing useful...)
What's going on?
Can I fix this?
Thank you VERY MUCH in advance for any assistance, anyone....
Cheers, Colin.
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Colin Bradley
fox@cs.mcgill.ca
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