[efax-users] Re: Can't send fax as USER

[Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rolf,

Further to my late posting, maybe the trick is here;

On starting KPPP a "Query" window popup for password.  If without
password it can't proceed further to connect to ISP.

The question is how to solve this problem.

B.Regards
Stephen

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 21:36, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> 
> Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi Rolf, 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:09, Rolf Pedersen wrote: 
> > 
> >>  - snip -
> >>
> >>># chown -R fax.fax /var/spool/fax
> >>>
> >>>(Is there a "." (stop) between fax.fax)
> >>>
> >>
> >>Yes, this works also as fax:fax but I think fax.fax is being adopted as 
> >>the correct syntax.
> > 
> > 
> > # chown -R fax.fax /var/spool/fax 
> > chown: `fax.fax': invalid user 
> > # chown -R fax:fax /var/spool/fax 
> > chown: `fax:fax': invalid user
> > 
> > Could not proceed further 
> 
> I suspect this is because the group fax does not exist.  You could add 
> groups with groupadd or, probably, the RH gui program.  What I am 
> thinking is that the important part is a consistency between 
> permissions, the files/directories used by efax, and the groups USER 
> belongs to, whatever they are.
> 
> > 
> > $ ll /var/spool/fax/ 
> > total 8 
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 root     uucp         4096 May 27 11:58 incoming 
> > drwxrwx---    3 lp       lp           4096 May 24 23:56 outgoing 
> > 
> > Comparing with your result maybe "outgoing" has problem, not showing as
> > "root   uucp" 
> > 
> > $ ll /var/spool/fax -d 
> > drwxrwxr-x    4 root     uucp         4096 May 22 15:10 /var/spool/fax 
> > $ ll /usr/bin/fax 
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        31248 May 22 15:10 /usr/bin/fax 
> > $ ll /var/lock -d 
> > drwxrwxrwx    4 root     lock         4096 May 28 11:56 /var/lock 
> > : 
> 
> As I recall, one of the problems was with the lock file.  This makes me 
> wonder if USER is a member of the lock group and whether that would 
> matter