Re: flexfax: Hylafax - fax user defined in passwd

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Eddie Reed wrote:

> In the process of getting Hylafax running, I get the following error in
> the daily run output:
> 
> "Checking the /etc/master.passwd file:
>  Login fax is off but still has a valid shell."
> 
> 
> "/etc/master.passwd has duplicate user id's.
> fax 6	uucp 6"
> 
> I changed the following user ID to #8 in the /etc/master.passwd file.

Bad Linux Admin! No biscuit! For various reasons, uucp and fax really
need to share the same user ID. This has been the subject of much
discussion lately, but it boils down to "making them different will
screw up handing the modem from one program to the other, and will
be much, much too hard to do otherwise."

> I changed the ownership of the home directory from user uucp to user fax
> 
> Now I can finally issue the command sendfx without getting prompted by a
> password, but nothing happens.  The command faxstat is not returning any
> output.

Simply put, you killed it. (No blame, just letting you know.) Change
this back to the same UID as uucp.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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