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Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX replaces Winfax...Yeah!!!
At 10:34 AM 11/26/01 -0700, Kevin Dawson wrote:
>New to this list.
>
>Just finished setting up my HylaFAX server on Mandrake's 8.1 distro.
> (WinFAX by the way is a horrible business solution)
<prejudice>Anything but HylaFAX for faxing is a horrible business
solution.</prejudice>
>The www.hylfax.org page sure could use some updates.
>(Not to demean the wonderful efforts of Sam Leffler, Matthias Apitz or
>others in the team)
Just to clarify... Sam and Matthias never were part of hylafax.org, but
they rightly deserve much credit, anyway.
>Obvious little stuff like:
>faxlp:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\ <----- make sure this is your dir.
>Mandrake directories are at /var/spool (guess that's a given)
Well, every user needs to be cautious that paths and such match their
system. Every system can be configured differently, so it's impossible to
make the website suit everyone's systems.
>Also, to print incoming faxes automatically:
>----snip--------
> $TIFFBIN/fax2ps $1 | lpr -Plp <-----------Need a space here -P
>lp
>CUPS will interfere here if installed...I put lpr-lpd -P lp
Can someone confirm this? I will make the change, if appropriate.
>>From http://www.hylafax.org/howto/clients/sambafax
>-----snip------
> echo "sendfax -n -D -f ${MailTo} -d ${FAXNUM} ${FAXFILE}" >/tmp/effe
>Great way to create an output file with no faxing!
>I later had to replace this line with faxspool anyway.
Others seem to have been using this just fine as it is.
>Here were my most interesting problems:
>Sendfax has a couple of different versions... one in /usr/bin and
>/usr/sbin.
Well, you're not supposed to have both mgetty+sendfax and HylaFAX on the
same system. They conflict.
> (Also had two different versions of faxq...got rid of the sbin
>versions.)
Ibid.
>faxspool is needed in sambafax script instead of sendfax;
> ( sendfax won't work because you need to convert to g3 format. )
> ( sendfax also changes modem device permissions on job
>submission.)
Ibid.
> I get "sendfax: cannot access fax device(s) (locked?)
> Think /var/spool/fax/etc/config.tty* has settings to fix this.
>faxrunqd needs to be run. (Need perl installed)
> (thought faxq was suppose to do this automatically?)
Ibid.
>faxstat becomes useless because I'm using faxspool.
> (there is some confusion here about HylaFAX's use of the spool
>system)
> (faxq replaces the use of faxstat)
Ibid.
>Others:
>Cypheus freezes in Windows 2000 on send.
>WHFC is wrong language despite English install...I think there is a way
>to change dll for English manually.
>
>Anyway, I must have gotten over zealous.
>Installing HylaFAX-server and HylaFAX-client and mgetty+sendfax and CUPS
>can make your install a bit more confusing.
Bingo!
>I looked back at the files of these packages and found two different
>versions of sendfax and faxq which causes all kinds of complications.
The light shines forth.
Lee.
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