Re: flexfax: Hylafax-V4.0 on unixware 7

[Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr>]

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Tim Rice wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:56:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>
> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
> Cc: Matthias Apitz <Matthias.Apitz@Sisis.de>,
>     Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr>, flexfax <flexfax@sgi.com>
> Subject: Re: flexfax: Hylafax-V4.0 on unixware 7
> 
> 
> And the prize goes to Jonathan Chen.
> 
> He got me thinking. I remember we had this problem with
> SCO Open Server 5. I thought UnixWare 7 was UnixWare, but I keep
> forgetting there is way too much Open Server 5 code in there.
> (I just wish they wouldn't use the broken code)
> 
> It turns out we need to set CONFIG_MAXGID=60000.
> 
> I've included a patch that includes all the (curently known) changes 
> to configure and config.site needed for UnixWare 7.
> 
> I've also included a change to handle the runaway faxgetty problem in
> UnixWare 2.1.3 (CONFIG_OPENFIFO=O_RDWR) It still works with earlier 
> versions of UnixWare.
> 
> Enjoy.
I tried! ... Still yields to the same error! Gosh I wish you where all
right! and I was wrong.

Further more, according to limits(4) the maximum value for UID OR GID *IS*
60002!

Yet another bug?

Keep going as I will, we're close!
> 
> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Tim Rice wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, kees wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I assume you checked owner/permissions of the directories in $FAXSPOOL
> > > > as well the same for the seqf files.....
> > > > Kees
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes I did. But then I would expect an EPERM error on permissions problems
> > > not an EINVAL.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm, could this be due to a unexpectedly large gid on the current
> > process? ie, if you're running with a gid that the file-system doesn't
> > like it won't create a file with that gid hence the EINVAL error.
> > 
> > [Reaching for answers...]
> > 
> > Jonathan Chen
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >        the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." - Gary Larson
> > 
> > 
> 
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