Dear Maintainer,

the script hylafax_wrapper is used in cron.weekly/hylafax to wrap calls to (among others) faxcron. When triggered, it will globally do a bind mount / unmount on /var/spool/hylafax/etc, thus breaking the local bind mounts in hfaxd.service / faxq.service using systemd's

BindPaths=/etc/hylafax:/var/spool/hylafax/etc

option.

Outcome: After the weekly cron run, /var/spool/hylafax/etc appears empty for faxq and hfaxd started using systemd.

Hello Markus,
could you please check the contents of file "mounts" and "mountinfo" in
/proc/<hfaxd pid> before and after the cron weekly run?
Thank you,
Giuseppe

Hello,

Same here!

Just installed Debian 12 and HylaFAX 6.0.7-5 and TODAY my HylaFAX
installation is completely broken and old faxes were DELETED :-/

sep 01 06:47:01 stt005 CRON[1228]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly; })
sep 01 06:47:01 stt005 systemd[1]: etc-hylafax.mount: Deactivated successfully.
sep 01 06:47:02 stt005 systemd[1]: etc-hylafax.mount: Deactivated successfully.
sep 01 06:47:22 stt005 systemd[1]: etc-hylafax.mount: Deactivated successfully.
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sep 01 06:48:24 stt005 systemd[1]: etc-hylafax.mount: Deactivated successfully.
sep 01 06:48:29 stt005 FaxQCleaner[24321]: doneq/q4274: line 69: Null or missing number in job request
sep 01 06:48:32 stt005 systemd[1]: var-spool-hylafax-etc.mount: Deactivated successfully.
sep 01 06:48:32 stt005 CRON[1227]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
sep 01 06:52:01 stt005 CRON[24347]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
sep 01 06:52:01 stt005 CRON[24348]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly; })
sep 01 06:52:01 stt005 systemd[1]: var-spool-hylafax-etc.mount: Deactivated successfully.

sep 01 06:52:01 stt005 systemd[1]: var-spool-hylafax-etc.mount: Deactivated successfully.

sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure


root@stt005:/var/spool# systemctl status hylafax.service
● hylafax.service - HylaFAX
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hylafax.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2024-09-01 05:24:01 CEST; 5h42min ago
       Docs: man:hylafax
    Process: 407 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 407 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 3ms

sep 01 05:24:00 stt005 systemd[1]: Starting hylafax.service - HylaFAX...
sep 01 05:24:01 stt005 systemd[1]: Finished hylafax.service - HylaFAX.

root@stt005:/var/spool# systemctl status faxgetty@*
● faxgetty@ttyS1.service - HylaFAX faxgetty ttyS1
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/faxgetty@.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-09-01 05:24:00 CEST; 5h 42min ago
   Main PID: 406 (faxgetty)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9509)
     Memory: 1.1M
        CPU: 90ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-faxgetty.slice/faxgetty@ttyS1.service
             └─406 /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1

sep 01 05:24:00 stt005 systemd[1]: Started faxgetty@ttyS1.service - HylaFAX faxgetty ttyS1.
sep 01 05:24:02 stt005 FaxGetty[406]: OPEN /dev/ttyS1  HylaFAX (tm) Version 6.0.7
sep 01 05:24:12 stt005 FaxGetty[406]: MODEM ACF3_V1.088-V90_P21_FSH 56000/

● faxgetty@ttyS0.service - HylaFAX faxgetty ttyS0
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/faxgetty@.service; enabled;preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-09-01 05:24:00 CEST; 5h42min ago
   Main PID: 405 (faxgetty)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9509)
     Memory: 1.0M
        CPU: 79ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-faxgetty.slice/faxgetty@ttyS0.service
             └─405 /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0

sep 01 05:24:00 stt005 systemd[1]: Started faxgetty@ttyS0.service - HylaFAX faxgetty ttyS0.
sep 01 05:24:02 stt005 FaxGetty[405]: OPEN /dev/ttyS0  HylaFAX (tm) Version 6.0.7
sep 01 05:24:12 stt005 FaxGetty[405]: MODEM ACF3_V1.088-V90_P21_FSH 56000/

root@stt005:/var/spool# systemctl status hfaxd.service
● hfaxd.service - HylaFAX client-server protocol server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hfaxd.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-09-01 05:24:01 CEST; 5h
52min ago
       Docs: man:hfaxd
   Main PID: 437 (hfaxd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9509)
     Memory: 1.1M
        CPU: 1.830s
     CGroup: /system.slice/hfaxd.service
             └─437 /usr/sbin/hfaxd -d -i 4559 -s 444

sep 01 10:30:40 stt005 HylaFAX[24908]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 10:30:40 stt005 HylaFAX[24908]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 10:30:40 stt005 HylaFAX[24908]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 10:30:40 stt005 HylaFAX[24908]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 11:08:40 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 11:08:40 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 11:08:40 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [root]
sep 01 11:08:40 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 11:08:44 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: `-> Got a: 127.0.0.1[13]
sep 01 11:08:44 stt005 HylaFAX[25192]: `-> Got a: 41531[19]

root@stt005:/var/spool# ls -la /var/spool/hylafax/
total 92
drwxrwxr-x 17 uucp uucp   4096 ago 29 05:13 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root     86 ago 26 10:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp      6 ene 18  2023 archive
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 ago 26 10:34 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp      6 sep  1 10:55 client
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp   4096 ago 26 10:34 config
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp     18 ago 26 20:01 dev
drwxr-xr-x  5 uucp uucp 176128 sep  1 06:48 docq
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp  94208 sep  1 06:48 doneq
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      6 ene 18  2023 etc
prw-------  1 uucp uucp      0 sep  1 05:25 FIFO
prw-------  1 uucp uucp      0 ago 29 05:13 FIFO.192.168.0.5
prw-------  1 uucp uucp      0 ago 29 16:12 FIFO.ttyS0
prw-------  1 uucp uucp      0 ago 29 15:50 FIFO.ttyS1
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp  12288 ago 28 17:46 info
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp 176128 sep  1 06:52 log
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp      6 ene 18  2023 pollq
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp  40960 sep  1 06:48 recvq
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp     18 ago 29 16:15 sendq
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp     82 sep  1 06:48 status
drwxrwxrwt  2 uucp uucp     74 sep  1 06:48 tmp

root@stt005:/var/spool# ls -la /var/spool/hylafax/recvq/
total 260
drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp uucp  40960 sep  1 06:48 .
drwxrwxr-x 17 uucp uucp   4096 ago 29 05:13 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   7846 jun  6 14:31 fax000004378.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp  10598 ago 29 12:48 fax000004383.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp  10602 ago 29 12:49 fax000004384.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   1806 ago 29 13:01 fax000004385.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   7519 ago 29 14:01 fax000004386.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   2370 ago 29 15:47 fax000004387.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   7506 ago 29 15:53 fax000004388.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp   7380 ago 29 15:56 fax000004389.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp  27640 ago 29 16:01 fax000004390.tif
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp uucp 149388 ago 29 16:15 fax000004392.tif
-rw-------  1 uucp uucp      4 ago 29 16:13 seqf

root@stt005:/var/spool# cat /etc/hylafax/hfaxd.systemd.conf | grep -i faxq
FAXQCLEAN_OPTS=""
FAXQCRON_OPTS=""

I had tons of sent and received faxes, where are they now??!!

After the mess of CRON job:

root@stt005:/var/spool# cat /proc/437/mounts
/dev/sda3 / xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=4057228k,nr_inodes=1014307,mode=755,inode64 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,relatime,pagesize=2M 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot 0 0
pstore /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
bpf /sys/fs/bpf bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing tracefs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10662 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run/credentials tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/systemd/incoming tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/0 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,inode64 0 0

root@stt005:/var/spool# cat /proc/437/mountinfo
605 581 8:3 / / rw,relatime shared:272 master:1 - xfs /dev/sda3 rw,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota
606 605 0:5 / /dev rw,nosuid,relatime shared:299 master:2 - devtmpfs udev rw,size=4057228k,nr_inodes=1014307,mode=755,inode64
607 606 0:21 / /dev/pts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime shared:300 master:3 - devpts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
608 606 0:23 / /dev/shm rw,nosuid,nodev shared:301 master:4 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,inode64
609 606 0:29 / /dev/hugepages rw,relatime shared:302 master:14 - hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,pagesize=2M
610 606 0:18 / /dev/mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:303 master:17 - mqueue mqueue rw
611 605 0:22 / /run rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:304 master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
612 611 0:24 / /run/lock rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:305 master:6 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=5120k,inode64
617 605 0:19 / /sys rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:308 master:7 - sysfs sysfs rw
618 617 0:6 / /sys/kernel/security rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:309 master:8 - securityfs securityfs rw
619 617 0:25 / /sys/fs/cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:310 master:9 - cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot
620 617 0:26 / /sys/fs/pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:311 master:10 - pstore pstore rw
621 617 0:27 / /sys/fs/bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:312 master:11 - bpf bpf rw,mode=700
622 617 0:12 / /sys/kernel/tracing rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:313 master:15 - tracefs tracefs rw
623 617 0:7 / /sys/kernel/debug rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:314 master:16 - debugfs debugfs rw
624 617 0:30 / /sys/fs/fuse/connections rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:315 master:18 - fusectl fusectl rw
625 617 0:31 / /sys/kernel/config rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:316 master:19 - configfs configfs rw
626 605 0:20 / /proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:317 master:12 - proc proc rw
627 626 0:28 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,relatime shared:318 master:13 - autofs systemd-1 rw,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10662628
627 0:35 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:319 master:32 - binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw
613 611 0:22 /systemd/inaccessible/dir /run/credentials ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:306 master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
614 611 0:22 /systemd/propagate/hfaxd.service /run/systemd/incoming ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
353 611 0:43 / /run/user/1000 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime shared:155 master:141 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64
212 611 0:44 / /run/user/0 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime shared:132 master:119 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,inode64

I have to restore from backups and DISABLE the cron job :-///

Cheers,

Hello Camaleón,

Il giorno dom, 01/09/2024 alle 11.23 +0200, Camaleón ha scritto:
[...]

Could you please clarify some details: you wrote about an installation, so I
supposed this was not an upgrade, then you wrote that old data vanished.
Was this a complete upgrade from debian 11 to 12?

Thanks,
Giuseppe

El 2024-09-01 a las 11:43 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco escribió:

Debian 12 installation was performed completely fresh, a new system, not
and update/upgrade from an older Debian version.

But after OS install, I manually backed up / restore my old HylaFAX
server configuration, which was plenty of data (faxes, logs...).

Now, after the CRON JOB was run, all files seem to be gone despite I
set the two variables to tell not to do so; and what is even worse,
HylaFAX is NOT working :-/

I have to spend the full day to restore it again, being a production
server.

Greetings,

Thanks for your answers, Camaleón. I still have some:

Il giorno dom, 01/09/2024 alle 12.41 +0200, Camaleón ha scritto:
[...]

OK

Was the backup/restore of data done after hylafax packages were already
installed and configured? Or, was hylafax installed after che restore of the
data?

So, you restored the data, you started hylafax, everything was working right,
maybe you sent or received some faxes, then the cron job was run and deleted
everything despite you changed FAXCRON_OPTS and FAXQCLEAN_OPTS in
/etc/default/hylafax?

What were the values you gave to these variables?

Thank you,
Giuseppe

El 2024-09-01 a las 15:21 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco escribió:

Data was restored AFTER HylaFAX package was installed and configured
and NICELY running after hitting bug #1031200 and finally bypassed the
faxgetty systemd problematic:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031200#75

Well... kinda so, but yes (see #BTS 1031200).

HylaFAX was FINE yesterday until TODAY when the cronjob run and hit
this new bug.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not there ;-)

Well, AFTER the cronjob routine was executed, I'm experiencing two (2)
issues:

1. None of my fax users (normal user -sm02-  and admin user) are able to
operate as usual. Log NOW says:

sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 10:23:26 stt005 HylaFAX[24873]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 10:24:02 stt005 HylaFAX[24874]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure

sep 01 17:01:59 stt005 HylaFAX[26348]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 17:01:59 stt005 HylaFAX[26348]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 17:01:59 stt005 HylaFAX[26348]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 17:01:59 stt005 HylaFAX[26348]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 17:02:05 stt005 HylaFAX[26349]: Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts.hfaxd: No such file or directory
sep 01 17:02:05 stt005 HylaFAX[26349]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): conversation failed
sep 01 17:02:05 stt005 HylaFAX[26349]: pam_unix(hylafax:auth): auth could not identify password for [sm02]
sep 01 17:02:05 stt005 HylaFAX[26349]: pam_authenticate failed in pamCheck with 0x7: Authentication failure
sep 01 17:02:05 stt005 HylaFAX[26349]: ADMIN failed from 192.168.0.8 [192.168.0.8], sm02

2. My old faxes and logs are also gone because of the faxqclean routine
was run despite is was disabled. Removing these old files prevent
HylaFAX server to operate normally, because of «seqf» files DOT NOT
MATCH (these files hold a count number).

root@stt005:/# cat /var/spool/hylafax/log/xferfaxlog
09/01/24 11:31	CALL	000009609	ttyS0		""	fax	"+34 xx xxx xxxx"	""	0	0	0:00:49	0:00:49	"No sender protocol (T.30 T1 timeout)"	""	""	""	""	""

As I pointed out in my first comment on this bug, I set the
variables in «/etc/hylafax/hfaxd.conf.systemd» and gave them a «null»
(empty) value as instructed in README file:

root@stt005:/var/spool# cat /etc/hylafax/hfaxd.systemd.conf | grep -i faxq
FAXQCLEAN_OPTS=""
FAXQCRON_OPTS=""

In the meantime, how can I safely disable ANY cronjob related to
HylaFAX?

Cheers,

Hi,

Il giorno dom, 01/09/2024 alle 17.15 +0200, Camaleón ha scritto:
[...]

hylafax is composed of two daemons, hfaxd is responsible for receiving fax
requests from client machines; faxq is responsible for scheduling and sending
all outgoing faxes. These are the main hylafax systemd services.

Then, you configure faxgetty for all your modems in order to be able to
receive faxes. These are systemd services as well.

Beside systemd services, there is a periodic script ran by cron. It uses
faxqclean in order to remove old faxes (images), and faxcron for removing
logs. These two commands are ran via cron and via /etc/cron.weekly/hylafax.

So, the configuration file /etc/hylafax/hfaxd.conf.systemd contains
information about the server ip addresses, the TCP port numbers, the protocol
to use. It does not run periodic cleaning and does not use FAXQ* variables.

/etc/cron.weekly/hylafax is just a normal shell script. In order to avoid its
execution, you may just add "exit 0" as second line. This script sources
/etc/default/hylafax in order to fetch FAXQ* variables, and provide default
values if these are not set in the configuration file.

The /usr/share/doc/hylafax-server/README.Debian.gz also suggest, in order to
block the cron script, to set both variables as empty:
FAXQCLEAN_OPTS=""
FAXCRON_OPTS=""

Could you check if this solve the problem?

Thank you,
Giuseppe

El 2024-09-01 a las 17:48 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco escribió:

Ummm... I see.

So, if the two variables have to be set at «/etc/default/hylafax», as
defined by weekly cronjob, the file should be created by default as it
used to be in older Debian versions or at least it should be noticed in
README and/or NEWS becasue is a BIT confusing as it is now :-?

Ok. I will manually create /etc/default/hylafax file, set the variables
in there, fully restore faxes and files from backup, restart services,
test and pray.

Will report/update here the next week about this issue.

Thanks!

El 2024-09-01 a las 11:23 +0200, Camaleón escribió:

(...)

The above issue is stil valid.

In addition to the removed files deleted by cronjob task, my other
problem (1) is the same as the bug reporter said:

root@stt005:/mnt/var/spool/hylafax/etc# ls -l /var/spool/hylafax/etc/
total 0

I will also have to DISABLE the WEEKLY cronjob routine.

Greetings,

El 2024-09-01 a las 19:20 +0200, Camaleón escribió:

Additional info:

After restarting services:

root@stt005:/mnt/var/spool/hylafax/etc# cat /proc/27094/mounts
/dev/sda3 / xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=4057228k,nr_inodes=1014307,mode=755,inode64 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,relatime,pagesize=2M 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/0 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,inode64 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot 0 0
pstore /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
bpf /sys/fs/bpf bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing tracefs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10662 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota 0 0
tmpfs /run/credentials tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/systemd/incoming tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64 0 0
/dev/sda3 /var/spool/hylafax/etc xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota 0 0

root@stt005:/mnt/var/spool/hylafax/etc# cat /proc/27094/mountinfo
554 389 8:3 / / rw,relatime shared:167 master:1 - xfs /dev/sda3 rw,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota
555 554 0:5 / /dev rw,nosuid,relatime shared:168 master:2 - devtmpfs udev rw,size=4057228k,nr_inodes=1014307,mode=755,inode64
556 555 0:21 / /dev/pts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime shared:182 master:3 - devpts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
557 555 0:23 / /dev/shm rw,nosuid,nodev shared:204 master:4 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,inode64
558 555 0:29 / /dev/hugepages rw,relatime shared:208 master:14 - hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,pagesize=2M
559 555 0:18 / /dev/mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:241 master:17 - mqueue mqueue rw
560 554 0:22 / /run rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:242 master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
561 560 0:24 / /run/lock rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:243 master:6 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=5120k,inode64
567 560 0:43 / /run/user/1000 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime shared:244 master:141 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64
568 560 0:44 / /run/user/0 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime shared:245 master:119 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813028k,nr_inodes=203257,mode=700,inode64
569 554 0:19 / /sys rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:250 master:7 - sysfs sysfs rw
570 569 0:6 / /sys/kernel/security rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:251 master:8 - securityfs securityfs rw
571 569 0:25 / /sys/fs/cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:252 master:9 - cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot
572 569 0:26 / /sys/fs/pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:253 master:10 - pstore pstore rw
573 569 0:27 / /sys/fs/bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:254 master:11 - bpf bpf rw,mode=700
574 569 0:12 / /sys/kernel/tracing rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:255 master:15 - tracefs tracefs rw
575 569 0:7 / /sys/kernel/debug rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:256 master:16 - debugfs debugfs rw
576 569 0:30 / /sys/fs/fuse/connections rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:257 master:18 - fusectl fusectl rw
577 569 0:31 / /sys/kernel/config rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:258 master:19 - configfs configfs rw
578 554 0:20 / /proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:259 master:12 - proc proc rw
579 578 0:28 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,relatime shared:260 master:13 - autofs systemd-1 rw,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10662
580 579 0:35 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:261 master:32 - binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw
581 554 8:2 / /mnt rw,relatime shared:262 master:142 - xfs /dev/sda2 rw,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota
562 560 0:22 /systemd/inaccessible/dir /run/credentials ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:246 master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
563 560 0:22 /systemd/propagate/hfaxd.service /run/systemd/incoming ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime master:5 - tmpfs tmpfs rw,size=813032k,mode=755,inode64
564 554 8:3 /etc/hylafax /var/spool/hylafax/etc rw,relatime shared:272 master:1 - xfs /dev/sda3 rw,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota

Cheers!

Hi Markus,
I probably found a solution for the following problem:

Il giorno mer, 24/07/2024 alle 18.31 +0200, markus@lindenberg.io ha scritto:
[...]
systemd. The periodic script, run by crond, runs in the general mount
namespace. As you pointed out, the "mount --bind" affect *all* processes. I
still cannot understand why this impacts on services that have different
namespaces, but I suspect this is related to the shareable state of the
mounts.

So, I have three different possible solutions. They are:
1. investigate about the systemd shared mount namespace in order to better
isolate systemd service and avoid interactions with the cronjob mount command.
2. change the cronjob and run it with from a systemd timer. That timer would
activate a systemd one shot service that, in turn, can be configured with its
mount namespace as the other daemon services.
3. use some command, in the cronjob, to work on private mount namespaces. It
could be probably done with the "unshare" command from util-linux package, or
with "bwrap" command from bubblewrap package.

Of these three, I am leaning about saying that the second one is more
feasible.

Do you have any comment on these? Did you already try one of them? Would you
volunteer to test a solution?

Thank you,
Giuseppe

After disabling the cron task by manually creating /etc/default/hylafax
file and setting in there the two variables to empty (thus disabling
fax archiving routine) sanity has returned to HylaFAX service:

root@stt005:~# cat /etc/default/hylafax
FAXQCLEAN_OPTS=""
FAXCRON_OPTS=""

So I cannot reproduce this bug anymore.
Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,