Package: hylafax-server Version: 2:4.3.1-6 Severity: wishlist I ran into a problem that I believe was the result of bad ownership/permissions of some configuration files. To verify that, I attempted to determine what the intended ownership and mode of the file was and what user hylafax (in particular hfaxd) ran as.
I've been unable to get a definite answer from the man pages, hylafax-doc, or the hylaFAQ online, and I've seen some contradictory and clearly incorrect information as well. Some documents referred to hylafax running as root, fax, or faxmaster. man hosts.hfaxd says it must be mode 600 and owned by the "fax" user. On my system it is mode owner read only, uucp as owner. hfaxd seems to be running as uucp, though the binary is root and the init.d script does not set a user. So I assume it changes to its user after it runs. README.Debian does include some discussion of mail accounts (thank you), but the issues above are a bit different. The reason this all matters is that sometimes while editing one inadvertently changes ownership or mode (using RCS under emacs has a nasty habit of doing this), and it would be nice to know how things were supposed to be. Background: I attempted to send a fax and got (on the client matchine) Service not available, remote server closed connection 421 Timeout (900 seconds): closing control connection. Document transfer failed: 421 Timeout (900 seconds): closing control connection. Yet my hfaxd.conf has IdleTimeout: 2000 My hfaxd.conf had root as owner and group, with only owner allowed to read. So I presume hfaxd couldn't read it, and used its default value instead. I don't seem any log messages confirming this, and I don't know that my fix of changing the owner to uucp worked. If it didn't, there might be another bug in here. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages hylafax-server depends on: ii adduser 3.101 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5 Transitional package ii gs-esp [gs] 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.54.dfsg.1-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int ii hylafax-client 2:4.3.1-6 Flexible client/server fax softwar ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff-tools 3.8.2-7 TIFF manipulation and conversion t ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii metamail 2.7-52 implementation of MIME ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor ii sharutils 1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages hylafax-server recommends: ii metamail 2.7-52 implementation of MIME -- debconf information: * hylafax-server/configure_note: hylafax-server/attachment: hylafax-server/start_now: true hylafax-server/setup_failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
