Re: flexfax: Error message

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Andrey L Dmitriev wrote:

> Hi and sorry my english!
> 
> I receive the following error message:

On what operating system and what version of HylaFAX?

> Nov 19 09:13:21 peo1 FaxSend[7031]: SEND FAX: JOB 9 DEST 1585 COMMID
> 00000078
> Nov 19 09:14:25 peo1 FaxQueuer[6957]: NOTIFY: bin/notify "doneq/q9" "done"
> "1:10"
> Nov 19 09:14:25 peo1 FaxQueuer[6957]: Bad exit status 042400 for "bin/notify
> "doneq/q9" "done" "1:10""
> 
> The problem in that the notify program is started on behalf of the user
> uucp(fax).
> It starts the sendmail with the same rights. But user uucp has not the
> rights
> of access to a directory /var/spool/mqueue  :-).
> How to start the sendmail with the right of root user?
> I run notify as root. All correct.

This is not quite right. sendmail should always be running as a
background job on the machine, what's called a "daemon". That is started
as "root" at boot time. When the UUCP user calls sendmail, he uses it
to submit a mail message with a local invocation of sendmail, which passes
it to the sendmail daemon.

The *DAEMON* should be running as root. Other mail programs will also
break if this is not configured correctly.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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