Solved problem with hylafax: How to help other users now

[Vittorio]

Sorry for the silly question. Forget it!
Only after sending the  email I noticed that in www.freebsd.org there's a rich 
bug reporting section. I will use it, of course.

Ciao
Vittorio

Alle 16:02, domenica 20 marzo 2005, Vittorio ha scritto:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I had the problem reported in the message below with hylafax installation
> compiled from scratch  from
> the standard ports of rel.5.3.
> I solved the problem "asking around" to many mailing lists and found the
> solution which - in this case - was as simple as:
>
> chmod a+rx -R /var/spool
>
> Now hylafax works!
>
> BUT ... if another user compiles hylafax from the ports chances are it will
> come across the same problems.
> How can I help avoiding this?
> Is there a bug reporting mailing list or should I write to the mantainer of
> the program (maho 'at' freebsd 'dot' org) to indicate my solution?
> Furthermore, not being an expert my solution could introduce some security
> hole in the system; who's going to check it?
>
> Ciao
> Vittorio
>
>
> ----------  Messaggio inoltrato  ----------
>
> Subject: Problems with /var/spool/hylafax
> Date: 12:57, mercoledì 16 marzo 2005
> From: v.demartino2 at virgilio.it
> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>
> Under FBSD 5.3 I've just compiled hylafax from the ports, set up the modem
> with faxsetup and then started "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hylafax.sh.sample
> start" ...
> BUT......
> /var/log/messages complains that:
>  VicBSD FaxQueuer[668]: /var/spool/hylafax: Can not change directory
>  VicBSD HylaFAX[669]: Can not change directory to /var/spool/hylafax
>  VicBSD FaxQueuer[739]: /var/spool/hylafax: Can not change directory
>  VicBSD HylaFAX[740]: Can not change directory to /var/spool/hylafax
>
> What's the matter with it and what shall I do?
>
> Here it is a "ls -al /var/spool/hylafax"
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x  17 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 16 09:07 .
> drwx------   9 daemon  daemon   512 Mar 15 21:43 ..
> -r--r--r--   1 root    dialer  5426 Mar 15 21:43 COPYRIGHT
> prw-------   1 uucp    dialer     0 Mar 15 21:43 FIFO
> prw-------   1 uucp    dialer     0 Mar 16 09:07 FIFO.cuaa0
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 archive
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 16 09:05 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 client
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer  1536 Mar 15 21:43 config
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 dev
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 docq
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 doneq
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 16 09:07 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 info
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 log
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 pollq
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 recvq
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 sendq
> drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 16 09:01 status
> drwx------   2 uucp    dialer   512 Mar 15 21:43 tmp
>
> Ciao
> Vittorio
>
>
>
>
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