Re: flexfax: etc/hosts Permissions

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Nico Garcia wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Brian Nunes wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:56:14 -0600
> > From: Brian Nunes <bpnunes@lconn.com>
> > To: flexfax@sgi.com
> > Subject: flexfax: etc/hosts Permissions 
> > 
> > I have etc/hosts owned by fax and set to mode 0600. When i attempt to
> > send a fax with sendfax or login while connected to hfaxd with the
> > "user" command i get access denied message and this in my log:
> > 'HylaFAX[2959]: Unable to open the user access file
> > /etc/hosts:Permission denied'
> 
> Sounds like the permissions on your hfaxd program may be wrong: what
> do you get with "faxstat", and are you sure you have $SPOOL/etc/hosts
> set instead of accidentally setting /etc/hosts? (The latter confusion
> is a bone of some contention).

Another thing to check for is to make sure the uid for `fax' == `uucp'.
They should both be the same.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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