Re: [hylafax-users] faxq faxgetty processes and the uucp user ref bug#571

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tarkan Taralp wrote:

> In particular, the faxq and faxgetty processes only run when I compile 
> hylafax with FAXUSER=uucp. For any other user name these processes 
> exit immediately!


This is something worth investigating.

> The following line of code from hylafax-4.3.1.tar.gz caught my 
> attention. Should "uucp" be hard coded here?
>
> UUCPLock.c++:145
>
> const passwd *pwd = getpwnam("uucp");


This is for UUCP locking... and I believe that this is deliberate.

> Note. Is my problem related to bug 
> http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571 or should I open a bug report?


I think that it's different thing.

Lee.


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