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From: unger@raindrop.seaslug.org (Thomas Unger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hylafax - you do not have permission...
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:26:01 GMT
Organization: Wet Weather Consulting
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In article <313e3b30.4065664@news.synapse.net>,
Yves Dagenais <yves@streamwave.com> wrote:
>"Service refused; you do not have permission to use the fax server
>from root@machinename.domain.com."
>
>
>Now according to documentations, it's said that access is controlled
>by the /etc/hosts.  I have defined everything in there as a normal
>hosts file has.  However, I still can't get it to let me fax.  Any
>ideas anyone?


Umm, sort of.  Really, they mean /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.  Mine looks like:

127.0.0.1


Just one entry allowing people on the local machine to send faxes.  Works 
here.  

[I think that the people who wrote hylafax did a poor job in choosing
file names.  "etc/hosts" no wonder your confused.  "config" bah, way
too generic.]

Tom.