Re: [hylafax-users] FreeBSD and HylaFAX

[alan <alan@pair.com>]

Although I'm using FreeBSD, this is my first and only Hylafax set up.
It has worked fine so far for my limited application (outgoing faxing
only, from one server).  I don't have direct experience with many of
the things you're attempting, but I'll try to provide comments where
possible.

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> * alan <alan@pair.com> [20010426 16:22]: writing on the subject 'Re: [hylafax-users] FreeBSD and HylaFAX'
> alan> What version of Hylafax?  What version of FreeBSD?  Did you install it
> alan> from the ports collection or from the sources on the Hylafax site?
> alan> 
> alan> I recently installed Hylafax from the ports collection (4.1b2) on a
> alan> 4.1.1-Stable server without any problems.  If you do this, cvsup your
> alan> ports tree before installing, and you'll get the recent hylafax
> alan> security patch as well.
> alan> 
> alan> Other than this, more specific error messages or descriptions of what
> alan> is going wrong would help.
> alan> 
> alan> Alan
> 
> 
> Hello Alan,
> 
> I am also running HylaFAX on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and the version is
> 4.1beta2_2. I upgraded from 4.1beta2_1 by simply doing a make install in
> /usr/ports/comms/hylafax. I cvsup every Friday so my base system/ports
> tree are very much updated but once I upgraded, I ended up with an error:
> 
> Login Failed: 550 Cannot set privileges

It looks like this error happens when hfaxd tries to seteuid and
chroot.  What user are you running the hfaxd daemon as?

> [snip]
> wash:~$ uname -a
> FreeBSD everest.wananchi.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #3: Wed Apr 25
> 13:37:08 EAT 2001wash@everest.wananchi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Kern4.x i386
> wash:~$ faxstat -s
> Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges.
> wash:~$
> 
> Secondly, may I kidly enlist your assistance with regard to running
> HylaFax for local faxing. My setup has been mainly with the TPC.INT style
> faxes but I am looking at a situation where I want to configure an MTA
> (prefferably Exim 3.x, but even sendmail config would suffice, I don't
> mind) to do local faxing. I want users on my sustem to be able to send
> faxes. I have other servers located in 3 different towns in our
> country. What I'd like to achieve is like this:
> 
> NB: To access a trunk number someone has to dail 0 followed by area code.
> 
> Servername	Location	Numbers to cover
> 
> Server1		Nairobi		Any number that doesn't begin with a 0
> Server2		Mombasa		Any number that begins with 011
> Server3		Eldoret		Any number that begins with 0321
> 
> I would be looking at a setup where the three servers would only dial out
> for numbers that don't start with a 0. They should know where to forward a
> fax document if the number is not local.
> 
> I hope I am not pushing my imagination so far. Since you use FreeBSD,
> you're much in a class of your own, and I happen to be a neighbor when it
> comes to those running FreeBSD ;-) Are you running Sendmail or Exim, or
> which one?

We are running qmail here, but we don't have a fax mail gateway set
up.  Unfortunately I have no experience in this area, so I doubt I
could be of much assistance.  Sorry about that.

Alan

> 
> Hoping for some input from you.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
> alan> 
> alan> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Kulraj Gurm wrote:
> alan> 
> alan> > Installed Hylafax on FreeBSD, totally unable to make receive or send faxes,
> alan> > although the modem was detected fine.
> alan> > 
> alan> > Now I have a fresh installation of FreeBSD and was about to start again, can
> alan> > anyone tell me if there are any important pre-requisites to installing
> alan> > HylaFAX, ghostscript is one but what else is required?
> alan> > 
> alan> > TIA
> alan> > 
> alan> > Kulraj
> alan> > 
> alan> > 
> alan> > 
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