Re: flexfax: problems with faxrcvd script...

[William Suetholz <wsuetholz@centonline.com>]

Josh Duncan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> hmm... your comment on it being in bin(and then needing a
> bin/<shell-script>) made me think.  I remembered that this is a chroot'ed
> system we're running here.  That makes me think that my running
> /home/path/to/my/home/directory/bin/<shell-script> won't work.
> 
> Methinks Iwill have to move my scripts and try it again(in the morning)  I
> will keep you all updated, of course, thanks for all the feedback :)
> (one thing though--if my shell script is running in a chroot'ed system, i
> won't be able to copy files out from it to the regular file systems,
> right?(I had thought this would be a problem, 20 seconds more thought
> tells me I can symlink into it from the outside world. nevermind,
> question answered by self))
> 
You cannot symlink from a chrooted tree out to the original tree!  The
whole point of chroot is that for any new processes the root of the tree
is
your chroot starting point..  ie  /var/spool/fax is now / to any scripts
being run by HylaFAX.

Bill Suetholz