Re: [hylafax-users] faxrcvd : moving received fax to different dir

[Torsten Mueller <torsten@archesoft.de>]

hey,

Tehn Yit Chin schrieb:
> 
> Is faxdaemon and uucp the same user?

in your case it seems so,

the directory should be writable to the user, who owns 
ls -l -h /var/spool/fax/recvq/

greetings torsten

> 
> I have added uucp to the group that have permission to write to the shared
> directory. I verified this by running faxrcvd as uucp on the command prompt
> and that works ok.
> 
> thanks,
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tehn Yit Chin
> Chief Engineer - Millison Technology Pty.Ltd.
> ph: +61 3 9798 7333
> mailto:tehn.yit.chin@millison.com.au
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Torsten Mueller [SMTP:torsten@archesoft.de]
> Sent:   Tuesday, 8 January 2002 6:47 PM
> To:     tehn.yit.chin@millison.com.au
> Cc:     hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject:        Re: [hylafax-users] faxrcvd : moving received fax to different dir
> 
> Hey,
> 
> i would say it's a permission problem with the shared
> directory.
> remember that the faxdaemon should have the permission the
> write to this directory.
> 
> Greetings Torsten
> 
> Tehn Yit Chin schrieb:
> >
> > I want to modify faxrcvd so that upon the reception of a fax, it will
> copy
> > the fax to another directory that is shared.
> >
> > The small addition that I made towards the start of faxrcvd is
> >
> > ....
> > ....
> > ....
> > NEW_DIR="/home/e-smith/files/ibays/faxq/files"
> >
> > /bin/cp $FILE $NEW_DIR/$FILE
> > /bin/chmod 0644 $NEW_DIR/$FILE
> > FILE="$NEW_DIR/$FILE"
> >
> > if [ -f $FILE ]; then
> >     #
> >     # Check the sender's TSI and setup to dispatch
> >     # facsimile received from well-known senders.
> >     #
> > ....
> > ....
> > ....
> >
> > When I execute bin/faxrcvd at the command prompt as root or uucp, it
> works.
> > It sends out the correct email notification and the fax ends up in the
> > correct directory with the correct permissions.
> >
> > When it is executed by hylafax, I get an email indicating that facsimile
> > was not received. Below is a typical email and it does not indicate what
> > the problem.
> >


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