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Re: sendfax works - faxmail and other frontends don't !!!



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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote:

> Phil Watkinson wrote:
> > 
> > At 18:37 04/03/1998 +0100, Michael Agbaglo wrote:
> > >2 Configurations - one problem ... !
> > >
> > >A)
> > >RedHat 4.1
> > >HylaFax 4.0pl1
> > >
> > 
> > Have you given up with RedHat 5.0 and HylaFAX v4.0pl2? The compile
> > problems were a real pig to sort out, but solvable in the end.
> 
> Yes, I gave up w/ Redhat 5.0 - but I'm not ashamed. RH5.0 is a real mess
> ! They think they're very cool using libc6 exclusively. But most
> important tools doesn't compile. e.g. ckermit - it requires termcap and
> libc5. But the s**t begins earlier: 5.0 has no rc.serial... There's no
> need to install other users beyond root: Everybody can become root
> easily - just go to single user mode and get a root shell w/o supplying
> a password - finest Win95-security !

Umm. They don't use glibc exclusively.

There are some significant tweaks needed to compile: I've got a list
of (IMHO) convenient patches, in:
	http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/~raoul/patches/

along with a config.linux for RedHat.

Works fine for me....



			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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