I don't have a HP device with fax functionality
so that I cannot reproduce it on my own.
I assume it happens because in openSUSE
/var/log/hp/ is not writable by arbitrary users
(it is "drwxrwxr-x root lp /var/log/hp" see previous comment)
so that /var/log/hp/tmp/ cannot be created therein
when a normal user runs hp-sendfax.
The openSUSE user reported that
# mkdir /var/log/hp/tmp
# chown root:lp /var/log/hp/tmp/
# chmod 775 /var/log/hp/tmp/
makes it work for him but he also had added
his normal user account to the "lp" group.
I assume adding the user to the group "lp" is required
here so that hp-sendfax works for this user because
otherwise the user cannot write in
drwxrwxr-x root lp /var/log/hp/tmp
An openSUSE 12.2 user reported that hp-sendfax fails /bugzilla. novell. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=800312
because of missing /var/log/hp/tmp/ directory, see
https:/
I don't have a HP device with fax functionality
so that I cannot reproduce it on my own.
I assume it happens because in openSUSE
/var/log/hp/ is not writable by arbitrary users
(it is "drwxrwxr-x root lp /var/log/hp" see previous comment)
so that /var/log/hp/tmp/ cannot be created therein
when a normal user runs hp-sendfax.
The openSUSE user reported that
# mkdir /var/log/hp/tmp
# chown root:lp /var/log/hp/tmp/
# chmod 775 /var/log/hp/tmp/
makes it work for him but he also had added
his normal user account to the "lp" group.
I assume adding the user to the group "lp" is required
here so that hp-sendfax works for this user because
otherwise the user cannot write in
drwxrwxr-x root lp /var/log/hp/tmp