Re: HylaFAX v4.0pl1 with USR Courier V.Everything

[Neal Dalton <nrd@usmainstream.net>]

Gabriel Fernandez wrote:
> 
> To whom it may concern:
> 
>    I downloaded the latest version of HylaFAX (V4.0pl1) and tried to use
> it with my USR Courier V.Everything. Unfortunately it does not work. Here
> is a description of the model and the incompatibilities/bugs that I found.
> 
> MODEM:
>   Manufacturer: U.S. Robotics
>   Model: Courier V.Everything
>   Latest Firmware Revision Tried: Supervisor 09/20/96 DSP 07/29/96
> 
> OPERATING SYSTEM:
>   Linux Distribution: Slackware96
>   Linux Kernel Version: 2.0.27
>   GCC Version: 2.7.2
>   TIFF Library Version: 3.4
> 
> SYSTEM:
>   CPU: Pentium 75MHz
>   RAM: 64MB
> 
> INFO:
>   My system is stnadalone, so I would like just to send and receive faxes
> in the simplest way. This seems not to be possible. I don't seems to find
> information about running the client programs without too much hussle.
> 
>   I have decided to use the fax server to try the program. However, I
> always get the same error, it does not matter what program I call.
> 
> >faxstat
> Service not available, remote server closed connection
> >ftp localhost 4559
> Connected to localhost.
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> ftp> quit
> >telnet localhost 4559
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> 
>    I have gone through all the man pages and the troubleshooting
> documentation. There is not any error similar to this one. I checked that
> the compilation procedure was bug-free and everything checked correctly
> except for a couple of getty programs (/sbin/vgetty and /sbin/egetty),
> which I read are not indispensible.
> 
>    I have run hfaxd with inetd and alone. I has not worked either way.
> 
>    Messages in /var/adm/messages are
> 
> Jan 11 01:53:53 apricot HylaFAX[1301]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server: restarted.
> 
>    Messages in /var/adm/syslog are
> 
> Jan 11 01:45:55 apricot HylaFAX[1257]: CAUGHT SIGNAL 11
> Jan 11 01:49:01 apricot HylaFAX[1283]: CAUGHT SIGNAL 11
> Jan 11 01:53:30 apricot HylaFAX[1225]: CAUGHT SIGNAL 11
> 
> (one for everytime the connection was dropped).


I had this problem and spent a weekend tracing it down to my /etc/hosts 
file had the wrong perms.  I was able to do a lookup in the hosts file,
so it went to DNS, where it was defined.

Neal