Thanks Geoff - that got me past another hurdle.
Unfortunately there seem to be further problems after the document
conversion stage. Having real trouble getting Hylafax to play with my
modem, eventhough the modem works fine when probing it with
minicom.
The syslog file is reporting messages
like:
/dev/ttyS1: Can not initialize
modem.
MODEM TIMEOUT: reading line from
modem
Unable to setup modem on /dev/ttyS1; giving up
after 2 attempts
MODEM /dev/ttyS1 appears to be
wedged
MODEM WEDGED: bin/wedged "ttyS1"
"/dev/ttyS1"
I have tried faxaddmodem several times; it
seems to detect my Banksia modem best as Class 1 (class 2 is supported
but it think it's a Rockwell).
Possibly I'm not getting the faxmodem
configuration string right. The at+ftm=? command
returns:
3,24,48,72,73,74,96,97,98,121,122,145,146
So I'm calling faxmodem like
this:
faxmodem -c
'(0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),0,0,(0-7)' ttyS1
I've also tried playing with the mgetty init
string with no joy yet.
The problem with the rpm is the permissions
in the /var/spool/fax/bin directory.
All the conversion (formatter)
files are in that directory, and they need to be
executable.
On my system, I set the permissions to 777
for that directory and it works, but only I have permission to log
on to the machine. (however I still don't like setting 777
even though nobody else can log onto it)
I don't know what the recommended
permissions are or who is supposed to own the files in that
directory, but I am interested in finding out if somebody can help
us out.
Anyway, that should get you up and
running.
Geoff
Hello,
I have spent a great deal of time getting
Hylafax to work for me to no avail. Maybe someone can offer some
advice as I'm running out of ideas. Here's the
scenario:
Hylafax installed fine, runs ok (i.e. the
queue management part etc.).
Modem is set up on ttyS1. Minicom talks
with it fine.
Hylafax is using class 1 with
it.
I only require outbound service, so I
don't setup faxgetty at all. (I have tried just in case but that
raised another set of problems; i.e. modem wedged, no FIFO device
etc).
Using "faxmodem" script seems fine.
Although the faxstat will perpetually report "initializing
server".
The senfax job fails. Checking the syslog
indicates that the problem is during the postscript conversion,
i.e. "no_formatter".
This happens whether I send native PS or
Ascii direct from sendfax.
Any input much
appreciated...
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