RE: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE

["Victor M. Moreno" <vmoreno@germinus.com>]

It happened to me;
try to move the content of folder afm of hylafax package to
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/

Hope it help

Regards

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Lyngbøl <michael@lyngbol.dk>
To: Bernd Proissl <news@proissl.de>
Cc: <flexfax@sgi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE


> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:35:37PM +0200, Bernd Proissl wrote:
> >
> >
> > have a look at
> > http://www.hylafax.org/patches/tiff-3.5-interfaces.patch
>
> OK - I suppose it's to apply to 4.1b2? Done that, build and installed
> it, but now "sendfax" fails:
>
> lyngbol@box ~$ sendfax -d 12345678 ~/tmp/dummy.php
> /usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for
> "Courier-Bold".
> Usage: /usr/local/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname]
> [-F fontdir(s)] [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V
> #] files... >out.ps
> Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
> Error converting data; command was "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f
> Courier-Bold -p 11 -s default >/tmp//faxsndM22999
> </home/lyngbol/tmp/dummy.php"
> lyngbol@box ~$
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks
> /Michael
>
> >
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com
[mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> > > Behalf Of Michael Lyngbøl
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:00 PM
> > > To: flexfax@sgi.com
> > > Subject: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to make HylaFax 4.0pl2 work on a FreeBSD/i386 4.0-STABLE
> > > system.
> > >
> > > I've installed HylaFax from ports-collection
(/usr/ports/comm/hylafax),
> > > which worked fine.
> > >
> > > /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup has been used to setup the system.
> > >
> > > hfaxd is run out of inetd:
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ grep fax /etc/inetd.conf
> > > hylafax stream  tcp     nowait  fax     /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
  hfaxd -I
> > >
> > > faxq is started:
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ ps axu|grep fax
> > > uucp     27768  0.0  1.1  2192 1452  ??  Ss   11:27AM   0:00.02 faxq
> > >
> > > Feed the system some dummy fax:
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ sendfax -n -d 87303644 \
> > > /usr/share/doc/bind/misc/style.txt
> > > request id is 2 (group id 2) for host localhost (1 file)
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$
> > >
> > > and nothing happend! why I havn't figured out. "faxstat -s" gives:
> > >
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ faxstat -s
> > > HylaFAX scheduler on ymer: Running
> > >
> > > JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
> > > 2    127 R lyngbo 87303644      0:0   0:12
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$
> > >
> > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ top
> > > ...
> > >   PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU
> > > COMMAND
> > > 28271 root       58   0  2300K  1520K CPU1   1   4:33 99.02% 99.02%
faxq
> > > ...
> > >
> > > the above process just seems to have gone wild?
> > >
> > >
> > > root@ymer.pil.dk fax$ faxstate -s ready cuaa0
> > > FIFO.cuaa0: open: Device not configured
> > > root@ymer.pil.dk fax$
> > >
> > > why?
> > >
> > >
> > > System: FreeBSD/i386 4.0-STABLE (as of april 8th)
> > > modem: Microcom Deskporte S 33.6
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated!
> > >
> > > /Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>