Solved problem with hylafax: How to help other users now

[Vittorio]

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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