Re: flexfax: Cannot set privileges

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Stephane Jouteux wrote:

>     I am new to this mailing-list. I am trying to run hylafax v4.0pl1 on
> my linux box (SuSE5-1). Trying a faxstat, I get :
> 
> 	Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges.
> 
> I can't figure out what is going wrong.  
> 
> 	-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       198664 Dec  1 01:04 faxq
> 	-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       287644 Dec  1 01:04 hfaxd

Look if you have the following entry in /etc/inetd.conf:

hylafax stream  tcp     nowait  fax     /usr/lib/fax/hfaxd      hfaxd -I

if so, remove it.



mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger
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