Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:35:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Wade Hovind <whovind@alentus.com> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/fd/7 reference? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0611221130520.25138@glacier.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <070201c70e5c$15a39290$ee01a8c0@alentus.lan> References: <070201c70e5c$15a39290$ee01a8c0@alentus.lan>
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> Recently installed spamd on a clear FreeBSD 6.1
>
> Spamd works fine until I turn on greylisting and then I get the following
> error:
>
> pfctl: /dev/fd/7: No such file or directory
>
> Found a reference to the error with the following advice/solution:
>
> "You have to mount a fdescfs(5) filesystem in order to get this working."
>
> The problem is I don't know how to do this. Took a few stabs using
> mount_fdescfs but I clearly don't know what the heck I'm doing on this one.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
If you used the spamd port, it should have gave the following message:
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In order to use spamd greylisting feature you have to have a mounted fdescfs(5)
at /dev/fd. This is done by adding:
fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0
to /etc/fstab. You may need either a customised kernel, or kldload the
fdescfs kernel module.
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If you need more details, let us know.
Jeremy C. Reed
p.s. This is also covered for FreeBSD in ISBN #0-9790342-0-5.
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