[Freeswitch-users] root privs for mod_fax

[Gabriel Kuri]

I'm running Gentoo Linux.

# uname -a

Linux 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 5 01:51:24 PDT 2008 x86_64
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3320 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

/tmp is writable by everyone ...

# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Dec  9 08:28 /tmp

ideas?

also, I assume the spool directory is just where it's spooling the file
temporarily while the fax is coming in, but is there a variable I can
set to tell it where to put the file after the fax has been received? it
looks like the time I ran FS as root and received a fax successfully,
the tiff file ended up in /root ?

Gabe

Brian West wrote:
> 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?
> 
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