Re: SCO HylaFAX-v4.0 server not reachable?

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 churritz@cts.com wrote:

> 
> Has anyone out there had the following problems with running hylafax on a SCO
> machine?  I've been using hylafax-v3 for at least a year with no problems,
> but one day i rebooted and I couldn't get faxstat to validate any fax server
> running (even though faxq seemed to be running just fine.)  Ok, then i though
> hey there's a new hylafax version v4.0pl1, and maybe i had some corrupt files
> in my old hylafax after boot up.  I installed the binary
> hylafax-sco3.2v4.2-v4.0pl1-cpio.gz
> and ran faxsetup, added my two fax modems and after I installed and checked to
> see that faxq was runing and hfaxd was in the /etc/services, i ran faxstat
> with fingers crossed, but got this:
> 
> faxstat -v
> Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
> Can not reach server at host "localhost", port 4559.
> 
> I can't even telnet to the port as i've read you can do if faxq is running
> 
> telnet localhost 4559
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> One Note: I don't see a hfaxd running but i assumed that it would automatically
> start if you put it in /etc/services and did kill -HUP initd
> which i did.
> 

Survey says *BZZZT*. You can add an entry to inetd.conf (the
appropriate file under Sun's, I assume SCO uses the same one) using
the "faxsetup" script. This is not recommended: it's better (according
to Sam, who wrote this stuff) to run hfaxd and faxq as daemons started
at boot time, using the "hylafax" script. And you need both hfaxd (to
answer network based requests) and faxq (to process the fax queue
faxes)

Not all binary installations have a "hylafax" script, but it's easy to
steal one from other OS's and tweak it to match your system if
necessary.


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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