Fwd: Re: flexfax: faxgetty conspiracy?

[Jakob Curdes <jc@info-systems.com>]

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Subject: Re: flexfax: faxgetty conspiracy?
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:23:53 +0200
From: Jakob Curdes <jc@info-systems.com>


On Fri, 22 May 1998, you wrote:
>I've downloaded the HylaFAX sources and compiled the lot on a linux box.
>
>To my surprise, no faxgetty was compiled. Sources seem to be
>non-existent in the distribution(s) I downloaded.
>
>I've downloaded all the 4.0 distributions, pl0, pl1 and pl2. All
>distributions don't have faxgetty included. I also downloaded the redhat
>.rpm binary distribution of HylaFAX. This didn't have faxgetty included
>either.
>
??? I just looked into my 4.0pl2 - the faxgetty code resides in 

faxd/ 

There is no faxgetty.c file; only when you build the software, an object file 
with the name faxgetty will be produced. I cannot tell about the rpm package- 
maybe somebody else can confirm if  it includes a faxgetty ? I cannot imagine
the contrary, or we should have heard of this problem in a zillion mails.

 >While browsing the documentation at www.vix.com I tried to access the
>faxgetty manual page at 'http://www.vix.com/cgi-bin/manpage?1+faxgetty'.
>The page is empty and doesn't return any contents. I tried downloading
>the page with Netscape, MSIE and Lynx. All browsers return an empty
>page.
This is true for me also. HINT to doc maintainers....

>
>The reason I've been (re)installing HylaFAX is because for some or other
>strange reason faxgetty was removed from my (linux) system at home. It
>seems to have been deleted at a time I wasn't working on the computer
>(2:41 a.m., may 6 1998). At least, that's the last time the directory
>contents were modified. Since then faxgetty has gone missing.
Hmm. Maybe you have  a disk problem ? Did you do a manual fs-check
(you have a llinux box - so that would mean
running e2fsck on the unmounted partition in question. )  

>
>Did I miss something?

I honestly think so....


hope this helps,
jc