Re: flexfax: configure question - new setup

[Dave Parker <uw!dlparker@uunet.uu.net>]

Michael Blaustein wrote:
>
>On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm. Can you ping "localhost", which is the default FAXSERVER? And
>> if faxstat fails, you probably either have a network problem or your
>> $SPOOLDIR/etc/hosts table is not permitting connections to your hfaxd.
>> Read the manual page on the HylaFAX "hosts" file carefully and see
>> where that gets you...
>> 
>> 			Nico Garcia
>
>Yes, localhost can be pinged.  The man page for "hosts" stipulates that 
>the file "hosts" must be owned by fax.  ls -l tells me it is owned by 
>uucp, not fax, even after I chown it to fax.  Could this be the problem?  

If you accepted the defaults during installation, I believe that the fax
user and group were set up with the same uid/gid as uucp.
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Dave Parker/DLP, Inc     dlparker@dlpinc00.com