RE: flexfax: More on hylafax

[Jamey Hopkins <jhopkins@direct-alliance.com>]

Still can't get HylaFAX to work on Red Hat 6.1!!!!  I have tried Hylafax 4.0
for Red Hat 5 and the 4.1 HylaFAX for Red Hat 6.1.  I removed all the fax
files/directories between installs.  Same problem know matter how I install
the software.

If anyone can see what's happening and knows of some trick to try, please
let me know.

Thanks!
JH

Here is some info on the setup:

With faxgetty another faxq gets spawned when a job is submitted that uses
99% of the cpu.  The fax still will not get sent.

uucp       525     1  0 06:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/faxq
uucp       527     1  0 06:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax
uucp       567     1  0 06:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1
uucp       632   525 99 06:25 ?        00:28:51 /usr/sbin/faxq

This is the inittab entry I used to spawn faxgetty:
s1:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1

With or without faxgetty the job goes into the docq.  But an attempt to
actually dial and send the fax never happens.

This is what faxstat -s says:
HylaFAX scheduler on faxserv.dac: Running
Modem ttyS1 (+1.480.902.2101): Running and idle

JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
7    127 W   root 5918          0:0   0:12

When the job times out, or if I wait like 30-60 minutes and faxrm the job, I
get an email with the following information (using faxgetty/faxmodem).  With
faxgetty running faxrm will hang unless the additional faxq that was spawned
is killed.

   Destination: 5918
         JobID: 7
       GroupID: 7
        Sender: root
      Mailaddr: root@faxserv.dac
Submitted From: localhost.localdomain
    Page Width: 215 (mm)
   Page Length: 279 (mm)
    Resolution: 196 (lpi)
        Status:   (nothing available)
       Dialogs: 0 (exchanges with remote device)
         Dials: 0 (consecutive failed calls to destination)
         Calls: 0 (total phone calls placed)
         Pages: 0 (pages transmitted)
      TotPages: 0 (total pages to transmit)
      Attempts: 0 (attempts to send current page)
        Dirnum: 0 (directory of next page to send)

The modem is a USR 56k FAX and works fine using cu or minicom.



-----Original Message-----
From: Neal E. Breakfield [mailto:nealb@lafix.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:13 PM
To: 'Jamey Hopkins'
Subject: RE: flexfax: More on hylafax


I don't use faxmodem.  I put the following on my /etc/inittab file.  When
you modify that file, be sure to use 'telinit q' imediately after so that
the system will re-read the file to respawn the faxgetty server for you...

# Onboard serials...
s0:2345:off:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0    # USR 56k

This runs the faxgetty server program that does the actual talking to the
modem.  w/o this, your faxes just hang out in the queue...

By the way, 'faxstat -s' shows what's in the queue...

Neal E. Brealfield

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com
> [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Jamey Hopkins
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:37 AM
> To: 'flexfax@sgi.com'
> Subject: RE: flexfax: More on hylafax
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got the same problem.  Installing the latest 4.1 beta
> for Red Hat 6.1
> fixed the font issue on my end.  However, when I submit a fax
> it still goes
> into the queue and then nothing else happens.  Later I get a
> message that
> the fax could not be sent in the time allotted.  The error
> message states
> that there were 0 attempts to connect.  It never physically
> takes the modem
> off hook to try and dial.  Is faxmodem needed to send the
> fax?  I do not
> need to receive faxes, just send.  How can I force delivery?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> JH
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wouter Hanegraaff [mailto:wh+flexfax@blub.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 3:23 AM
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: flexfax: More on hylafax
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just reinstalled hylafax, making sure I erased all left over config
> files.
>
> At the end of the faxaddmodem program I get:
> Don't forget to run faxmodem(1M) (if you have a send-only environment)
> or configure init to run faxgetty on ttyS0.
>
> What is faxmodem for? do I have to run it each time I restart the
> fax servers?
>
> I tried to send a ps file to the fax server, and this is what I get:
> ; sendfax -d 8748007 factuur.ps
> request id is 1 (group id 1) for host localhost (1 file)
> ; faxq
> zsh: exit 255   faxq
> ; faxstat
> HylaFAX scheduler on duckman: Running
>
> And that's all :(
> So it seems as if the fax server's running ok, receiving the
> ps file ok.
> But the file never ends up in faxq...
>
> When trying to fax a plain text file, I get complaints about
> the default
> font not being found.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> If not, I'll try to build the package myself.
>
> Wouter..
>
> --
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>