How to run faxrunqd as other than root fron inittab?

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Hi,

On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 07:35:58PM +0000, oamador@obipr.jnj.com wrote:
> I'm running faxrunqd from inittab and it works well.  I just would like to
> make the email messages sent by faxrunqd to come from a FaxAdmin user account
> instead of root.

Just change the "From:" lines in the faxrunqd script.  Voila, done.

> Since faxrunqd runs a root, I guess I could configure a fax fail script and su
> to the fax admin account before sending email.

You could, but that would be certainly more effort than needed.

> I was hopping to run faxrunqd as the faxadmin account instead.  Can this be
> done from inittab?  Or do I have to run faxrunqd from the rc files?

faxrunqd will most likely not work properly without root privileges.

gert
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