Re: [hylafax-users] Disabling Purge Function

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joea wrote:

> Thanks.  Did  not find a "fax" user when trying crontab -e fax (or looking with other methods) so desired clarification.
>  

Just look at what user faxgetty, faxq, and hfaxd run as.

> Maybe I should not ask, but what determines why hylafax does, or does not, create a fax user?  Varies with version?  Flavor of 'nix?

I think that we ended up (some time ago) abandoning the "fax user" 
altogether in lieu of simply using uucp on UNIXes where a uucp user 
existed.  The documenation which you're reading was written at an 
earlier time when HylaFAX deliberately attempted to set up a "fax" user 
on every installation.  (I'm not sure how to properly reword the 
documenation now, though, to make it better.)

So most likely your case is that the uucp user is the "fax user".

Lee.

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