System() failed message

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Hi,

Owen Gray wrote:
> I have just installed mgetty-1.1.14-Apr02 on a system running RedHat 5.1
> (2.0.35).
> 
> It seems that faxes are received ok. They look all right when I convert them
> to something I can view. I notice in the logs (both syslog and log_mg.ttyS1)
> a "system() failed: Operation not permitted" message at the end of the
> reception process.

Sounds like the new_fax script to be called after a fax reception is not 
available/not executable.   Increase the debug level, and see which program
mgetty tries to call, and then find out why it doesn't work.

gert
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