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Re: [hylafax-users] FaxQueuer: JOB xxxx: CONVERT DOCUMENT: exit status 0xff00



I don't know if I understand very well your issue but,
maybe you want consider using linux VServer and avoid
some problems. Cheers

http://www.linux-vserver.org/Linux-VServer-Paper

Pedro

--- Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> A noexec mount option added recently to the /var
> partition on our server had 
> the unintended consequence of disabling the HylaFax'
> scripts (like ps2fax). 
> Attempts to call such script now result in
> "permission denied errors".
> 
> Unfortunately, instead of logging such errors
> properly and emailing the 
> failure messages back to the senders, HylaFax showed
> no indication of error 
> whatsoever, other than logging the message quoted in
> subject into the system 
> log.
> 
> Although the jobs never got sent, their q-files are
> (bogusly) moved into the 
> doneq.
> 
> To reproduce, simply `chmod -x
> /var/spool/hylafax/bin/ps2fax' and try faxing a 
> text file.
> 
> To keep the /var mounted noexec, I moved the whole
> hylafax/bin subdirectory to 
> the more apropriate /usr/local/libexec/hylafax and
> put a symbolic link in 
> place. /usr/local is usually mounted readonly here
> (unlike /var and /tmp, 
> which are not expected to have executables).
> 
> Yours,
> 
> 	-mi
> 
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