[Gllug] Hylafax on Debian

[Xander D Harkness]

I updated a Debian box a few days ago.  There were almost 300 packages
that were out of date, so I did change quite a lot.

The machine is Internet facing and consequently I did not do it gradually
and ensure that every application was working etc. etc.

I am now having a few glitches with Hylafax.  I get error messages in
daemon.log that the Hylafax entry in inittab is respawning too fast,
Google seems to show similar problems; however no fixes.  The Hylafax log
extract that seems to be relevant is here:

Apr 23 19:38:51 thegate FaxQueuer[10216]: Could not open FIFO file
dev/FIFO: Permission denied.
Apr 23 19:38:52 thegate HylaFAX[10218]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server:
restarted.
Apr 23 19:38:52 thegate HylaFAX[10218]: HylaFAX Old Protocol Server:
restarted.
Apr 23 19:38:52 thegate HylaFAX[10218]: HylaFAX SNPP Protocol Server:
restarted.

If I run manually strace /usr/sbin/faxgetty /dev/modem

I get amongst other stuff:

mknod("dev/FIFO.modem", S_IFIFO|0600)   = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
open("dev/FIFO.modem", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
brk(0x80c5000)                          = 0x80c5000
brk(0x80c8000)                          = 0x80c8000
time([1051526509])                      = 1051526509


The permissions on the modem and port are as follows:
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     dialout    4,  64 Apr 28 11:09 /dev/ttyS0


Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Or anything else I should look
at?

Kind regards
Xander




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