Re: flexfax: Red Hat v6.0 and Hylafax

[Keith Gray <keith@hcs.com.au>]

"Mark S. Hayes" wrote:
> 
> I am new to linux.  I am running v6.0 and would like to install hylafax.  I
> have the modems configured and tested using setserial and minicom.  I
> downloaded an rpm from the redhat site and installed it.  Everything seemed
> to go ok.  When I try to run sendfax I get the following message:
> 
> 460 Failed to submit job 1:  Unable to open scheduler FIFO: Device not
> configured.
> 
> The fifo files do exist.  The problem appears to be with faxd and hfaxd.
> These processes are not running.  When I try to start faxd it tails me it
> failed.  I saw some related postings in the archives but none offered any
> solutions.
> 
> Thanks for any support you can provide.
> 
> Mark

You seem to have NOT run faxmodem or edited the /etc/inittab to include
a faxgetty service for hylafax.

Keith