Re: flexfax: SuSE 5.0 & HylaFAX

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Olaf Menzel wrote:

> Hello,
> ------
> I am really a HylaFAX newcomer and have some questions.
> 
> I use HylaFax from the SuSE 5.0 distribution and I have completed
> successfully faxsetup & faxaddmodem. Then I have set the right in the file
> hosts in /var/spool/fax/etc.
> 
> When I check the server with faxstat -srv everything seemes to be o.k. but
> if I try to fax a file with sendfax the fax ist only queued and nothing else
> happens.
> 
> If I send the file test.ps for example to the number 123456789
> with the command :
> 
> sendfax -n -d 123456789 test.ps
> 
> I have got the following answer from faxstat -s:
> 
>    HylaFAX scheduler on faxserv.somewhere.else: Running
> 
>    JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
>    2    127 W menzel 123456789    0:0   0:12         

[...]

You have either to start faxgetty -just comment out the entry in
/etc/inittab- or tell the queuer with faxmodem about its fax-related
capabilities.

See http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/choeger_fax-sendonly.html
and http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/choeger_hylafax-problems.html

I think in most situations, these URLs should help...

mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger
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