Re: hp-sendfax error timeout

[Apostolos Kefalas <akef@freemail.gr>]

Hello,

the problem is the permission on /home/USER/.hplip

I haven't managed to find who is creating this directory, but if I
change the permissions of .hplip to 777, everything works fine.

Having world read/write in my home dir is not something I like. So I
found that changing the group ownership of .hplip to 'lp' solved the
problem.

Thanks
Apostolos

On Πεμ, 2016-04-21 at 12:51 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> first: this seems to be problem in unstable and testing too, so I would
> open a bug report against hplib.
> 
> However, looking at the code
> http://sources.debian.net/src/hplip/3.16.3%2Brepack0-1/fax/backend/hpfax.py/?hl=266#L266
> 
> if os.path.exists("/home/%s/.hplip"%username):
> tmp_dir = "/home/%s/.hplip"%username
> else:
> tmp_dir = "/tmp"
> 
> pipe_name = os.path.join(tmp_dir, "hp_fax-pipe-%d" % job_id)
> 
> os.umask(0o111)
> try:
> os.mkfifo(pipe_name)
> except OSError:
> os.unlink(pipe_name)
> os.mkfifo(pipe_name)
> 
> you might just want to add some prints to see what is the value of tmp_dir, and maybe why the pipe_name can't be created
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Gianfranco
>