Re: [hylafax-users] cannot send any faxes (could not create client)

["Davison Long" <davlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just did an:

# emerge -u hylafax

and it upgraded to 4.1.8 from the 4.1.7 release.  I wish I had payed 
more attention to the previous configuration to notice what directories 
where there and which ones were not.

Thank you tremendously for your answer, as adding that directory 
manually did solve the problem.  Can you possibly give me a listing 
(with ownership and permissions) of all directories that should be 
present?  Looking in the my logs it still complains of missing tmp, 
archive, and pollq directories.  But the more important question is if 
there should be any files in those directories that I no longer have?

Thanks again for your quick response.
Davison

> 
> 
> How did you upgrade?
> 
> It looks like your hylafax spool (/var/spool/hylafax) no longer has 
the
> client directory (or the permisions in it are wrong).
> 
> ls -ld /var/spool/hylafax/client
> drwxr-xr-x    2 uucp     uucp         4096 Nov 20 
13:34 /var/spool/hylafax/client
> 
> 
> * Davison Long <davlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [031120 17:21]:
> > I'm running the latest version of Gentoo Linux and HylaFAX 4.1.8
> > 
> > I just upgraded to the 4.1.8 release and now I'm have a MAJOR 
problem.  
> > I cannot send any faxes or even run the faxstat utility.  
Everything 
> > that follows is occuring on localhost (no remote clients).  The 
> > following is what the faxstat utility returns:
> > 
> > #faxstat -vs
> > Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > 420 luther.vagop.com server cannot initialize: Could not create 
> > client/2044: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Digging deeper, I check the system logs and find the following 
lines:
> > 
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1.8
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam 
> > Leffler
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 
Silicon 
> > Graphics, Inc.
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxGetty[1815]: HELLO
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther FaxQueuer[2033]: Could not scan client 
directory 
> > for clients
> > Nov 21 02:46:11 luther HylaFAX[2037]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server: 
> > restarted.
> > Nov 21 02:46:20 luther HylaFAX[2040]: connection refused (Could not 
> > create client/2040: No such file or directory) from localhost 
> > [127.0.0.1]
> > 
> > Notice the "could not scan client directory for clients", and the 
last 
> > line caused by the faxstat attempt.
> > 
> > My hosts.hfaxd has not changed, and it simply contains:
> > localhost
> > 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > What could be the problem here??  I can't find anything in the 
archives 
> > or on google about this specific problem, and nothing similar seems 
to 
> > address my problem.  Could this be a bug in the 4.1.8 release?  Any 
> > help would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks,
> > 
> > Davison Long
> > 
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