flexfax: almost, part II

[dep <dep@westnet.com>]

i spake too soon. chmod 644 does indeed allow tkhylafax to start as
user, but then i get errors when i try to send. and when i chmod 644
/var/spool/fax/etc/hosts, i get the same error when i try, say, faxstat
as root. which i discovered buried somewhere in the docs -- that if
hosts is anything but 0600, nobody can read it. so the permission issue
is elsewhere. and with it at 600, faxstat works both as root and as
user -- but then tkhylafax won't start as user.

nasty little quandry here that someone must have solved. anybody?

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