[hylafax-users] FW: hylafax works halfway

Sorry about the double post. I seem to experience problems with my system.

Pedro: Thanks for answering.

I understand your answers and agree with you on reading the documentation. You must see hundreds of newbies like me here. Don't get me wrong I really appreciate your answers, but I am a little new to linux... Imagine Hylafax. I just got the opportunity to promote Linux in my company, but have learned everything I know with the help of people like you... pointing me out stuff. And to top it all: english is not my birth langage.

The thing is that I cannot read documentation when I don't know what to read.

As for irritant 1: thanks for pointing out samba printing. Can you tell me what to look for into it? how my problem is named?

irritant 2: yes, I read both setup.html and howto/index.html. I sincerely don't know what I did wrong.

irritant 3: weither I wait a few seconds or long minutes... it always waits for a queued fax to initialize, then come ready then fax.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

I have the latest RedHat 9 and Hylafax 4.1.7 running on i386. All packages are up 2 date. I followed the install procedure from the TAR file as well as the RPM for RH9. Both give me the same result. I did faxsetup, faxaddmodem and faxmodem. Nowhere in the processus did I get an error (a small tiff lib prob, but fixed by installing libtiff-devel). Everything went exactly as expected.

I print to \\serveripaddress\faxlp and my resulting ps file goes to /var/spool/lpd. I can see and open it. It does not go out to the fax. But, when I use the sendfax command in a shell with proper options, the fax eventually gets out (few seconds)

When I faxstat -s, I get

ttyS0 running and idle (my USR 56 v.92 rel 5.4.44 external modem) which is what I expect

My /var/spool/lpd/status.pr looks like:

waiting for subserver to exit at 2003-11-06-01:32:36.451 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=1679
opening device '/dev/ttyS0' at 2003-11-06-01:32:36.560 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1680
cannot open '/dev/ttyS0' - 'Permission non accordée', attempt 1, sleeping 10 at 2003-11-06-01:32:36.600 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1680
cannot open '/dev/ttyS0' - 'Permission non accordée', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 2003-11-06-01:32:46.595 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1680
cannot open '/dev/ttyS0' - 'Permission non accordée', attempt 3, sleeping 40 at 2003-11-06-01:33:06.595 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1680
travail 'anonftp@serveurinabox+678' tentative 1, essayé 3 fois at 2003-11-06-01:33:46.646 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1679
attempt 2, sleeping 10 before retry at 2003-11-06-01:33:46.654 ## A=anonftp@serveurinabox+678 number=678 process=1713
waiting for subserver to exit at 2003-11-06-01:33:46.656 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=1679

anonftp is an anonymous ftp user I have created for that server?????

I have to faxmodem ttyS0 in a shell everytime for faxes to get out... Is this normal?

After manually sending a fax, the faxstat -s command always returns waiting for modem to become ready... Untill another fax comes in the queue. Is this normal?

If someone can guide me towards a paper/doc/whatever I missed please...