Re: flexfax: problems with faxrcvd script...

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

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, William Suetholz wrote:

> 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.

But user programs can reach *IN* to the chrooted system: I use this
to keep a pointer to the fax spool in my home directory.


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

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