Re: [hylafax-users] Error: Can not determine file type, Debian Package bugs?

[hesco@xxxxxxxxxx]

Giuseppe:  

Thank you for the heads up about the spam complaints.  I'll ask our
server administrator to whitelist your ip, if I can dig that up
somewhere.  

I just copied /etc/old/hylafax/typerules to /etc/hylafax.  

The error I'm getting now says:  
root@biko:~# /etc/init.d/hylafax start
ERROR: /var/spool/hylafax/etc/pagesizes is newer than
/etc/hylafax/pagesizes
Please send a bug report on the hylafax-server package

so - - - 

root@biko:~# ls -al /var/spool/hylafax/etc/pagesizes
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 17 16:24
/var/spool/hylafax/etc/pagesizes
root@biko:~# ls -al /etc/hylafax/pagesizes
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3316 Apr 19 01:57
/etc/hylafax/pagesizes
root@biko:~# cp /etc/hylafax/pagesizes /var/spool/hylafax/etc/pagesizes
cp: overwrite `/var/spool/hylafax/etc/pagesizes'? y

then - - - 

root@biko:~# /etc/init.d/hylafax start
ERROR: /var/spool/hylafax/etc/typerules is newer than
/etc/hylafax/typerules
Please send a bug report on the hylafax-server package

and - - - 

root@biko:~# ls -al /etc/hylafax/typerules
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6408 Jan 31  2004
/etc/hylafax/typerules
root@biko:~# ls -al /var/spool/hylafax/etc/typerules
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 17 16:24
/var/spool/hylafax/etc/typerules
root@biko:~# cp /etc/hylafax/typerules /var/spool/hylafax/etc/typerules
cp: overwrite `/var/spool/hylafax/etc/typerules'? y

which yielded:  

root@biko:~# /etc/init.d/hylafax start
Starting HylaFAX daemons: faxq hfaxd faxgetty.
root@biko:~#  

and finally:  

hesco@biko:~$ ./fax.sh
Password:
request id is 1 (group id 1) for host localhost (1 file)  

	<---  That was pretty exciting.  
	<---  Hadn't seen that in quite a while.  

Thanks for the clues.  Happy to have this working again.  I'll check it
out with a test broadcast and see what happens.  

My prior experience was that hylafax installed cleanly "out-of-the-box"
as it were, using apt-get install, faxsetup, addfaxmodem and addfaxuser.
I had never had to jump through these sorts of hoops before.  And this
is probably my third or fourth install from the Debian packaging system.  

Not knowing much about the .deb packaging system, I can't really offer
you any patches, I'm afraid.  But perhaps this experience might inform
the work of someone who does speak that language.  

-- Hugh Esco 

Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Error: Can not determine file type, Debian
	Package bugs?
From: Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: hesco@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:37:31 +0200

Il mer, 2004-08-18 alle 16:16, Hugh Esco ha scritto:
> Hello all:  

Hi Hugh,
I have been trying to send you private responses but I always get this
error:

Remote MTA pk.greens.org: SMTP diagnostic: 553 interbusiness.it banned
FOR IGNORING SPAM COMPLAINTS.  Please complain to your service provider.

Of course I did contacted my provider and, one month ago, they told me
they were contacting your provider.

Now, back to your problem:

> Our fax server has been down for perhaps 45 or 60 days now, ever since a
> recent apt-get upgrade revved the version.  I'm finally sitting down to
> work through the error messages I'm getting.  So far, the steps I have
> had to take that were not addressed by the Debian packaging system have
> included:  
> 
> root@biko:~/hylafax# chmod 600 /etc/hylafax/hosts.hfaxd
> root@biko:~/hylafax# chown uucp:uucp /etc/hylafax/hosts.hfaxd

These two steps are done by the installation procedure. Did you noticed
that the uid where changed *during* the installation process?

> 	which got the Login failed: 530 Login incorrect. errors to go away.  
> 
> cp /etc/old/hylafax/pagesizes /etc/hylafax 
> 
> 	which did away with: Unknown page size default 

Every time a new package is installed, the pagesizes file is changed in
order to add a new line with default pagesize that are read by libpaper.
What is the default papersize you setup in libpaper?

> manually ran:  
> /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0
> /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1
> 
> and added to inittab:  
> #  http://www.hylafax.org/archive/1999-06/msg00085.html
> fg0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0
> fg1:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1
> 
> 	which got faxstat to stop telling me:  
> 	HylaFAX scheduler on biko.office.gpga: Not running 

This is inconsistent: you should either run it manually (the preferred
way) or run it via init. There is a parameter that define the hylafax
behaviour in /etc/default/hylafax.

> So far, though, I remain stumped by the following sendfax error:  
> 
> 	Can not determine file type 
> 
> That is in response to both .pdf and .ps files.  
> 
> The Sendfax man page provides a wholly unhelpful description of this
> error message.  
> 
> %s: Can not determine file type. sendfax was unable to deduce the type
> of the file. 
> 
> Google has offered nothing.  The real question is:  not what does this
> error message mean, but what is it I should do about it?  

Whenever the hylafax server receive a file, it tries to understand what
kind of file it is, in order to correctly convert it to tiff/g3.
The configuration file /etc/hylafax/typerules is used for this. Do you
have this file installed?

> == Hugh 

Bye,
Giuseppe


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