Re: flexfax: sendfax doesn't work?

[Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de]

Ramon Arxer wrote:
    
    Hello!
    
    I'm trying to install HylaFAX again (this is the second time), the first
    time (at home) it worked very well, and now at the school it seems that
    some problems appear.
    I'm installing HylaFAX 4.0pl1 with the Dirks-faxmailer patch on a
    Pentium based server with Linux.
    
    When I send a fax the faxmailer script executes the following sentence:
    
    /usr/local/bin/faxmail -n | /usr/local/bin/sendfax -f 'root <root> (+34
    3 401-68-01)' -h 'gea04' -n -m -d '@4114343' -D 2>&1
    1>/tmp/.faxmailer.166
    
    then the sendfax program stops. With the ps -x command you can see:
    
    165  p2 S     0:00 send-mail -i fax.4114343 
    166  ?  S     0:00 perl /usr/local/bin/faxmailer fax 4114343 
    168  ?  S     0:00 sh -c /usr/local/bin/faxmail -n |
    /usr/local/bin/sendfax -f
    170  ?  S     0:00 /usr/local/bin/sendfax -f root <root> (+34 3
    401-68-01) -h
    
    And in the log file all seems stopped also:
    
    Nov  7 19:52:15 gea04 FaxQueuer[124]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl1
    Nov  7 19:52:15 gea04 FaxQueuer[124]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam
    Leffler
    Nov  7 19:52:15 gea04 FaxQueuer[124]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon
    Graphics, Inc.
    Nov  7 19:52:18 gea04 HylaFAX[134]: HylaFAX INET Protocol Server:
    restarted.
    Nov  7 19:52:18 gea04 HylaFAX[134]: HylaFAX Old Protocol Server:
    restarted.
    Nov  7 19:52:18 gea04 HylaFAX[134]: HylaFAX SNPP Protocol Server:
    restarted.
    Nov  7 19:52:21 gea04 FaxGetty[141]: OPEN /dev/cua1
    Nov  7 19:52:21 gea04 FaxGetty[141]: MODEM set DTR OFF
    Nov  7 19:54:42 gea04 sendmail[164]: TAA00164: from=root, size=43,
    class=0, pri=30043, nrcpts=1,
    msgid=<199711071854.TAA00164@gea04.pangea.org>, relay=root@localhost
    Nov  7 19:54:43 gea04 HylaFAX[171]: Filesystem has SysV-style file
    creation semantics.
    
    Somebody has an idea?

Try running telnet on the same host where the sendfax(1) is running

$ telnet gea04 4559

and see what the hfaxd(1M) is doing for you. You may also enable
the trace of the client/server protocol in the hfaxd.conf file.

	matthias