mail2fax script under sendmail - how??

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Hi,

Graham Leggett wrote:
> faxadmin: "|/usr/local/bin/mail2fax"
> 
> to the aliases file and run newaliases it does not work at all, bouncing
> with the rather unhelpful message "an internal error has occured".
> 
> I have managed to nail this down to the fact that only root is allowed
> to fax - and nowhere easy to find have I found what user the script is
> run as when piped to from sendmail. The user is definitely not
> "faxadmin", as I have tried that.

Just create a file "fax.deny" (being empty), and remove "fax.allow".  Then
look which user created the fax job...

gert

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