Re: flexfax: hfaxd: Cannot set privileges

["Hans Feringa (HFX)" <hfx@shelob.demon.nl>]

Make sure that hfaxd runs as root on SuSE 5.2.
When running from inetd, it runs as uucp, not root.
I run it as a standalone daemon now, and don't see the
problem anymore. (because I did not look into it any
further on how to make it run as root from inetd)

Hans

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Ekkehard Burkon wrote:

> Now _that_ is helpful. You've told us:
> >
> >       1. It's a recurring problem
> >       2. It's worth following up
> >       3. With root access, someone might be willing to debug this (assuming
> >               the original poster is unable to).
> 
> Well, ok I'll try to track the problem down to
> the reason why the chroot or chdir calls fail.
> 
> For me it usually doesn't make sens to look at the sources
> because I do not really understand whats written there.
> 
> Just to inform you. The problem occurs since I reinstalled
> my linux system. Before I used a Suse Linux 5.1 now its
> the newer 5.2. 
> 
> We'll see what I can find.
> 
> So far thanks and don't get too hot.
> 
> E. Burkon
> 
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