RE: flexfax: Parse error in "dailrules"

[BROUX <broux-werken@skynet.be>]

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van:	Mr. Arlington Hewes [SMTP:tpcadmin@info.tpc.int]
Verzonden:	vrijdag 6 november 1998 20:37
Aan:	BROUX
CC:	'flexfax@sgi.com'
Onderwerp:	Re: flexfax: Parse error in "dailrules" 

In message <01BE096E.903CF880@BROUX-01>, BROUX writes:
>Hi, I'm using Hylafax 4.02 on a Linux Redhat machine.

Could you be a bit more specific please? 4.02 means very little . . . what is 
the exact name of the RPM you installed?

The exact name is : HylaFax-V4_0pl2-19_i386.rpm
I'm using Linux Redhat 5.1 on a PII machine.
    
>I installed the software without problem (a RPM distribution). I've got the se
>rver running and am able to send faxes to the server from clients (using WHFC 
>on WIN95 machine). But making the modem connection seems to be the problem. Wh
>et i use Faxstat i get the message that the "server is running" and "waiting f
>or the modem to become ready" and after a while the modem becomes "wedged".

You need to use faxaddmodem to choose/create an appropriate config file for 
your modem.

I've run faxsetup and faxaddmodem. I've tried to setup outbound only first with faxmodem, later i've tried using faxgetty.
All of this was done using /dev/cua0. 
Here is a part of my syslog file :

Nov  3 15:29:37 faxser FaxQueuer[420]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2
Nov  3 15:29:37 faxser FaxQueuer[420]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam Leffler
Nov  3 15:29:37 faxser FaxQueuer[420]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Nov  3 15:36:19 faxser FaxQueuer[460]: Cannot open file "etc/dialrules" for reading
Nov  3 15:36:19 faxser FaxQueuer[460]: Parse error in dial string rules "etc/dialrules" 

>When i look in my syslog file i get the message that there is a parse error
>in t he dailrules file. More specific there is a problem when setting the
>identifie rs. I get the message that the program expect a "=" or an ":=" after
>the "A".  This is in the line "Area=${Areacode}".

Have you edited this file? Seems very sloppy for an RPM.

I tried using the dailrules and the dailrules.europe that came with the RPM.
They seem to be standard.

You should tell us more about your modem as well - it's highly relevant. If you are as desperate as you say you are, give us something to chew on please, so that we may help you.

Modem is : 3com US Robotics  56K Voice Faxmodem capable of faxclasses 1 and 2.0 connected externally to com1.
Using "efax -d cua0 -o 0" this modem works perfectly to send out faxes. (even documents from /var/spool/fax/docq that were send from a client using WHFC)
      or "efax -d modem -o 0"

 Help would still be appreciated. 

Steven Cruysberghs
Belgium

 

-DPN