Il giorno ven, 02/02/2007 alle 00.08 -0800, Ross Boylan ha scritto: [...] > 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.
The uid used by hylafax on Debian is uucp. This is written into hylafax code, so that when the server run, it change uid and switch chroot to /var/spool/hylafax. This is why all configuration files are copied there. The copy will check that ownership is unchanged. [...] > 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. what is your servertracing value in /etc/hylafax/config ? Bye, Giuseppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
