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 libc62.3.6.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 4.1.1-21The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff-tools3.8.2-7 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 mailx1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-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 sharutils1:4.2.1-15 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:
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