Re: flexfax: Hylafax4.0pl2 problems

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

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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Paul Kersting wrote:

> I downloaded the source files for hylafax4.0pl2 to install it on my pc
> running linux RedHat5.0.  The build and install seemed to go fine, but
> when I ran faxsetup, it couldn't find a faxgetty program.  I looked for
> it, and while there is a man page indicating that it is part of the
> hylafax package, there was no executable.  I searched the tar file and
> the only reference to faxgetty is the man page that was downloaded.  Is
> there something missing from the source tar file?
> 
> I resolved the problem by installing the binaries in the
> HylaFAX-4.0pl1-1.i386.rpm, which included the faxgetty executable.
> However, the rpm loaded everything in non-default directories and
> hylafax didn't work.  In the end, I've used the faxgetty from the rpm
> and used the rest of the program as built from the source files.

The RPM is severely broken for RedHat 5.0. Do *not* use it.

Bare source potentially overwrites several tools, including xferstats
from the wu-ftpd package.

I've published a list of patches for RedHat Linux, including a
config.linux that uses the same lock, spool, etc. directories as other
Linux tools use. They seem to operate just fine under SunOS as well,
and are at
	http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/~raoul/patches/

> Can anyone give me some help with this?  I apologize in advance for the
> fact that I am a relatively inexperienced sysadmin for a linux platform.

No problem. Welcome to the club.

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

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