[Serusers] What does SER/FIFO error usually mean?

[sip]

Because it's a security risk. You generally don't WANT to allow any user on
the machine to be able to access the ser_fifo and send commands directly. That
should be limited to root and/or particular groups you have set up for that
specific purpose. 

N.

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:35:33 -0000 , Yong, Chee Yeew wrote
> That worked. Thanks.
> I am not sure why this (fifo_mode=0777) wasn't inserted in either the
> ser.cfg or ser.cfg.sample files.
> 
> Chee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Blair [mailto:blairs at isc.upenn.edu]
> Sent: 08 December 2005 18:39
> To: Yong, Chee Yeew 
> Cc: serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: Re: [Serusers] What does SER/FIFO error usually mean?
> 
> Permissions problem I'm guessing. Do you have the following in your
> config file?
> 
> fifo="/tmp/ser_fifo" # named pipe needed by serctl
> fifo_mode = 0777
> 
> Yong, Chee Yeew wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >  
> > I am trying to add a user to my MySql database with the command:
> >  
> > serctl add joeuser passwd joeuser at here.com <mailto:joeuser at here.com>
> >  
> > but I am getting an error:
> > error: SER/FIFO not accessible: 2
> >  
> > Any pointers to where to start debuging this error?
> >  
> > Thanks.
> >  
> > chee
> >
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