Re: [hylafax-users] Fresh system admin needs help - RH 6.2 + Hylafax-4.1beta2-8rh6.i386.rpm

["Caruso, Anthony J." <acaruso@fna.com>]

Harry:

This list, so far, has been quite kind to me.  Allow me to offer a
hand/advise.  I just started w/ HylaFAX a few weeks ago, so my exp. is
limited.  As far as mail-to-fax goes, I haven't even started on it yet.  But
I do have a server that sends faxes (except for us-legal paper from specific
clients).

To alleviate possible headaches from what you have done already, start with
a fresh box.

How I did it:
I started w/ Mandrake 7.2, Redhat should be just fine.

get rid of mgetty-sendfax (rpm -e mgetty-sendfax)

Grab the Building HylaFAX from source document:

http://www.hylafax.org/building.html

Ensure your libraries are correct:
rpm -qa |grep tiff
make sure you have tiff  3.5
do the same w/ your gcc, ghost, etc.

From Hylafax.org, look at the CVS section.  Follow it.  It works very well
and compiles nicely:

./configure
make
su
make install
add your faxmaster alias in /etc/aliases
run /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup
run /usr/local/sbin/faxaddmodem
	If using a USR modem _lie_ and say it is a class 1 fax modem
add the respawn entry to /etc/inittab
check that /etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax is there; if not cp it from
/usr/local/sbin.  Then you can

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax start



test with
/usr/local/bin/sendfax -n /etc/passwd -d xxx-xxxx

try also /usr/local/bin/faxstat

to make sure hfaxd is running.

My last bit of advise:  Don't even bother with the RPMs - I see over and
over on the list the CVS is better.  Maybe in the future there will be an
RPM w/ the CVS mods included.

List members:  Did I miss anything?

-Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Harry M. Aasterud [SMTP:harry@aasterudweb.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:49 PM
> To:	hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject:	[hylafax-users] Fresh system admin needs help - RH 6.2 +
> Hylafax-4.1beta2-8rh6.i386.rpm
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Beeing new in this area, I found that Hylafax offers a good mail-to-fax
> gateway, so I decided to give it a try. But after 2 weeks of intensive
> trying it is giving me a terrible headache... and am close to giving up !
> I've got some bad expierences with this kind of mailing lists (people have
> a tendens on not taking me serious :-( ), but hope that somebody kan help
> me on getting this up and running. 
> 
> According to what I found in the howto section, I made shure that all
> required rpm's are installed, that is : 
> 
> *	libtiff-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm
> *	ghostscript-5.50-1.i386.rpm
> *	libgr-devel-2.0.13-23.i386.rpm
> 
> Then I installed hylafax-4.1beta2-8rh6.i386.rpm, but the installation gets
> aborted. Since there was no clear error message on the screen, I tried rpm
> -e hyla... but got he message ... is not installed. The I tried to install
> the source version. While running ./configure I got the error that it
> couldn't find a correct tiff library. 
> 
> I did some reading in the archives, and found several referals to
> conflicts with v3.4 and 3.5. However, i tried to downgrade to version 3.4,
> with the same results. I then removed the hylafax directory (aborted
> source installation) and tried the rpm again. Here I now got the error
> that the package was allready installed. But a rpm -q told me that it
> isn't installed... 
> 
> As you can see, I'm going in circles, round and round and round !!! 
> 
> I hope to get some help from the Hylafax team, or from anybody else on the
> list. Hope to hear from you soon. 
> 
> Kind Regards, 
>   
> 
> Aasterud WebCom 
> Harry M. Aasterud      Tel.: +47 / 74 16 11 42 
> Utvik                  Faks: +47 / 74 16 11 43 
> NO-7730 Beitstad       <http://www.aasterudweb.com> 
> Norge - Norway


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