Re: [hylafax-users] Installation of 4.1

[Malcolm Candlish <bm@candlish.uklinux.net>]

Lee,

Thank you for your gracious response to my vitriol. Having spent a seemingly great deal of time, reading the printouts of man pages, FAQs and the HowTos, my frustration was extreme in not getting 'sendfax' to work effectively. A lot of users proclaim the value of HylaFAX, but I was getting no where. I do apologise to you for my unreasonable comments and recognise that you improved upon a more difficult situation.

By sorting the /etc/hosts file I can now use 'sendfax' if the file is in tiff format. Thank you for your kind help.

Best wishes,

Malcolm Candlish.

On Thu, 23 May 2002 14:07:55 -0700
Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com> wrote:

> On 2002.05.23 13:09 Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> 
> > I have of course read the 'How To', but it appears very poorly presented
> > and written. It is difficult to follow, seemingly lacking fluency.
> 
> Ouch.  Well, okay, imagine the HylaFAX website without the HOW-TO.  That's 
> the condition things were in before I wrote it.  Note that I do mention 
> several times throughout the HOW-TO that it is not meant to replace the 
> HylaFAX man pages, but rather is meant to augment man page study.  Somehow 
> I doubt that you've read the man pages.
> 
> > For
> > instance, I am about to set up 'Client Access' with /etc/hosts on the
> > default localhost 127.0.0.1 and 'hosts.hfaxd' also.
> 
> Don't touch your /etc/hosts file.  What you want to modify is 
> etc/hosts.hfaxd... big difference.  Nowhere does the HOW-TO instruct you 
> to touch /etc/hosts.
> 
> > The information here
> > is incomplete and inconclusive for the preparation of a particular
> > function.
> 
> It delegates the instruction to 'man hosts.hfaxd', 'man faxadduser', and 
> 'man faxdeluser'.  Have you read those manpages?
> 
> > I still cannot run sendfax and can only assume as indicated
> > that the default /etc/hosts will work in default mode. However, now via
> > 'sendfax', I get 'localhost : unknown host'.
> 
> Probably because you have screwed up your /etc/hosts file (not a HylaFAX 
> file), which you weren't supposed to touch.  Please read 'man hosts' and 
> fix it.
> 
> Note also that the supposed poorly presented, poorly written, difficult to 
> follow, and fluency lacking HOW-TO addresses your very issue:
> 
> http://www.hylafax.org/howto/help.html#ss8.3
> 
> Which is found in the "Troubleshooting" section under "Faxing Errors".  
> Imagine that.
> 
> Lee.
> 

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