[Freeswitch-users] root privs for mod_fax

[Brian West]

If you're running SELinux then you'll need to correct that on your  
machine to allow FreeSWITCH to write to /tmp

/b

On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Gabriel Kuri wrote:

> I've been experimenting with mod_fax and discovered it doesn't  
> appear to
> receive faxes unless freeswitch is running as root? it fails trying to
> open the tiff file for writing (see the logs below). I'm using the
> dialplan as prescribed in the wiki without any changes and the user  
> the
> freeswitch process is running under has privs to write to /tmp, but it
> still fails to receive faxes. I haven't tried sending any faxes yet.
>
> I'm running r10609.
>
> any ideas?