Re: [hylafax-users] Still unable to receive incoming faxes via e-mail

[Tom Rymes <trymes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 1, 2003, at 5:28 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:

> > I am still unable to receive incoming faxes via e-mail.
> >
> > I am using the original FaxDispatch file with one line added to print
> > incoming faxes. I have tried sending to the default address 
> > (faxmaster)
> > as well as myaddress@xxxxxxxxxxxx as well as just myaddress. The
> > HylaFax host is the mail server, and the faxcron scripts manage to
> > successfully send usage reports to me each night as they run.
>
> Where is it getting stuck?
>
> I recently diagnosed similar symptoms, and checked maillog to discover
> that the outbound mail wasn't even being attempted.  I then went to the
> /var/spool/fax/bin directory and discovered that for unknown reasons, 
> the
> executable flag was missing on a number of key files.  chmod ugo+x 
> fixed
> this problem.

Well, I'm not certain what is the best way to determine that. A while 
back I pulled this from the logs:

[trymes@shaggy trymes]$ sudo tail /var/log/messages
Password:
Nov 13 17:39:45 shaggy FaxGetty[9721]: RECV FAX (00001551): from 
6035883401, page 1 in 0:17, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 1-D MR, 14400 bit/s
Nov 13 17:39:45 shaggy FaxGetty[9721]: RECV FAX (00001551): 
recvq/fax01494.tif from 6035883401, route to <unspecified>, 1 pages in 
0:19
Nov 13 17:39:48 shaggy FaxGetty[9721]: RECV FAX: bin/faxrcvd 
"recvq/fax01494.tif" "ttyS5" "00001551" "" "" ""
Nov 13 17:39:50 shaggy FaxGetty[9721]: Bad exit status 042400 for 
'bin/faxrcvd "recvq/fax01494.tif" "ttyS5" "00001551" "" "" ""'
Nov 13 17:40:01 shaggy FaxGetty[9721]: MODEM U.S. ROBOTICS 56K FAX /

Anyway, here is ls output for my /var/spool/hylafax/bin directory:

[trymes@shaggy trymes]$ ls -l /var/spool/hylafax/bin/
total 72
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          734 Aug  1 22:35 archive
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7909 Aug  1 22:35 faxrcvd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7779 Nov 13 17:22 faxrcvd.bak
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3670 Aug  1 22:35 mkcover
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2227 Aug  1 22:35 notify
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        10222 Aug  1 22:35 notify.awk
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2065 Aug  1 22:35 pcl2fax
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Nov 13 17:32 pdf2fax -> 
pdf2fax.gs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3812 Aug  1 22:35 pdf2fax.gs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7585 Aug  1 22:35 pollrcvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Nov 13 17:32 ps2fax -> 
ps2fax.gs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3811 Aug  1 22:35 ps2fax.gs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         6071 Aug  1 22:35 tiff2fax
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2880 Aug  1 22:35 wedged

Any ideas?

Tom


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