Re: Fedora 26 HylaFAX+ directory owned by root

The problem is that the hylafax+-client package does not "Require" 
uucp... and the hylafax+-client package is installing before the 
required packages (including uucp) for the hylafax+ package.

It's possible that this order of processes changed sometime recently.  I 
don't remember this being a problem before.  I've done a large number of 
installations simply by doing "yum install hylafax+" without considering 
uucp being installed beforehand.  On Fedora 26 it goes like this:

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Running transaction
   Preparing :                                                        1/1
   Installing       : 
liblockfile-1.09-5.fc26.x86_64                        1/11
   Running scriptlet: 
liblockfile-1.09-5.fc26.x86_64                        1/11
   Installing       : 
libesmtp-1.0.6-11.fc26.x86_64                         2/11
   Running scriptlet: 
libesmtp-1.0.6-11.fc26.x86_64                         2/11
   Installing       : 
esmtp-1.2-9.fc26.x86_64                               3/11
   Running scriptlet: 
esmtp-1.2-9.fc26.x86_64                               3/11
   Installing       : 
hylafax+-client-5.5.9-1.fc26.x86_64                   4/11
   Running scriptlet: 
hylafax+-client-5.5.9-1.fc26.x86_64                   4/11
warning: user uucp does not exist - using root
warning: group uucp does not exist - using root
warning: user uucp does not exist - using root
warning: group uucp does not exist - using root
   Installing       : 
mailx-12.5-23.fc26.x86_64                             5/11
   Installing       : 
cu-1.07-49.fc26.x86_64                                6/11
warning: user uucp does not exist - using root
warning: group uucp does not exist - using root
   Running scriptlet: 
uucp-1.07-49.fc26.x86_64                              7/11
   Installing       : 
uucp-1.07-49.fc26.x86_64                              7/11
   Running scriptlet: 
uucp-1.07-49.fc26.x86_64                              7/11
   Installing       : 
mgetty-1.1.37-2.fc26.x86_64                           8/11
   Running scriptlet: 
mgetty-1.1.37-2.fc26.x86_64                           8/11
   Installing       : 
sharutils-4.15.2-5.fc26.x86_64                        9/11
   Running scriptlet: 
sharutils-4.15.2-5.fc26.x86_64                        9/11
   Installing       : 
libtiff-tools-4.0.8-1.fc26.x86_64                    10/11
   Installing       : 
hylafax+-5.5.9-1.fc26.x86_64                         11/11
   Running scriptlet: 
hylafax+-5.5.9-1.fc26.x86_64                         11/11
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The messages "warning: user/group uucp does not exist - using root" are 
the red flags there.

I've added a "Requires: uucp" to the hylafax+-client package. However, 
I'll need to push an update for that to get into packages before Fedora 
28.  That will happen when I get a chance in the next couple of months.

Thanks,

Lee.


On 11/14/2017 09:06 PM, Andras Kende wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using this http://www.kende.com/fax.php?id=1&modems=1 kickstart to automate my HylaFAX+ Fedora 25, 26 server..
>
> Fedora 25 just needs to run faxsetup command after install and works great…
>
> Fedora 26 /var/spool/hylafax/ is owned by root on fresh install so faxsetup won’t complete and also scheduler is not starting…
>
> Fedora 25
> drwxr-xr-x. 17 uucp   uucp    214 Nov 14 19:50 hylafax
>
> Fedora 26
> drwxr-xr-x. 17 root   root    194 Nov 14 20:12 hylafax
>
> On Fedora26 running "chown uucp:uucp /var/spool/hylafax/“ fixes the issue…
>
> Is anyone had this same issue ?
>
>
> Andras
>
>
>
>
>
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