Re: problem with setup up server in a linux machine.

["Jian Wang" <jianw@nortel.ca>]

Hi, Gabrienal:

Thank you very much for your help. Actually, I manually added
fax uer into passwd file, but I still could not started up
hfaxd.  I have the same problem mention in your mail.  I 
could run faxsetup completely, adding fax modem, specifying
the fax modem.  However, when I invoked faxsend, it complained
can not connect to localhost, service unavailable....via port 
4995(?). I check my hosts file, it is "localhost\n 127.0.0.1.

Did you have any progress, or some one can give us a help?


You take care,







In message "problem with setup up server in a linux machine.", fernande@cs.sc.edu writes:

> Hi,
> 
>    We are on the same boat. I actually got a little farther than you. ;-)
> But I haven't been able to make it run completely. Somehow, the fax server
> does not go up. It has connection problems.
> 
>    Let me tell you what to do with the faxseup script.
> 
>    When you run the fax setup, somehow, the shell script has some default
> values for programs that automatically add/remove a user from the
> /etc/passwd file. Those values are wrong for linux. At least, under
> Slackware there is no useradd command.
> 
>    Check the file /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup.linux (or wherever you
> faxsetup script is installed) and you will see the default values. The
> correct command is /sbin/adduser without parameters (the parameters the
> script has for useradd don't work). However, you have to
> be sure the user and group id's are the same as the UUCP "user" and that
> the password is "*". The easiest test is to rename that file to something
> like /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup.linux.copy and re-run the faxsetup
> script. You will see that the process will stop with an error saying
> that it was not able to add the fax user.
> 
>    Add the user by hand. Just edit the file /etc/passwd and copy the line
> with the configuration for uucp. Change the short name to "fax", the full
> name to "Fax User" or something similar, the work directory to
> "/var/spool/fax", and the shell to "/bin/false". The user id is 10 and the
> user id is 14 by default. You "must" use the same numbers (as far as I
> understand).
> 
>    After you have created the user "fax", re-run the faxsetup script. It
> will find that the user fax already exists and that has the correct
> values. The rest of the process should run smoothly. I also got some
> warnings about the files /sbin/vgetty and sbin/egetty. I understand they
> are no "vital", because they are used only if you have a voice option for
> the modem.
> 
>    If you finish sucessfully, then you will be in the same situation as I
> am. :-(
> 
>    I also have a loopback setup with Linux kernel 2.0.27. My modem is USR
> Courier V.Everything. I have not been able to make the "hfaxd -i 4559" to
> run correctly. Somehow, it is not able to establish the connection and the
> fax server is never up.
> 
>    Everytime I do "faxstat" or try to run any other command, I always get
> an error message saying "Service not available".
> 
>    I am not sure whether you need "faxq" to send faxes. I think I read
> that it is useful only if you want to maintain queues.
> 
>    Let me know if you are able to make the fax server to run and what
> changes you made. Notice that the "hosts" files should be accesible by
> everyone and that it should contain
> 
> 	localhost
> 	127.0.0.1
> 
>    That's all I know.... Good luck,
> 
> 	Gabriel
> 
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