RE: flexfax: FW: Hylafax - faxq unable to exec faxsend

["William H. Gilmore" <whgi@csi.com>]

All,

I finally gave up on attempting to get the RPM to work on my RH5.2 machine. 
 I have been corresponding with another person who succesfully installed 
it.  In both of our cases, our configurations were created through the use 
of "standard" (whatever that means) RPMs.  In tracing through and RPM query 
on our respective machines, I could find not difference in libraries or 
external program depended upon by Hylafax.

Consequently, I fell back to my UNIX background and compiled the program 
(Damn I hate to admit this).  As far as a compile goes, it wasn't any worse 
than normal.  There are about 8 patches to apply and the build works.  The 
software is installed and working as documented.  It appears that it will 
meet my needs.  For that, I would like to thank all of you who have been 
involved in the evolution and development of Hylafax.

I'll offer the following advice for RedHat users.  IF THE DEVELOPED RPM 
DOES NOT WORK AT FIRST BLUSH, ERASE IT AND COMPILE FROM SCRATCH!!!

I would like to challenge someone to take ownership of Hylafax from a Linux 
perspective.  I realize that we cannot expect SGI to address since it would 
be a definite conflict of interest.  I will not volunteer myself because I 
am much more of a SysAdm than a programmer.  However, I will volunteer to 
help with testing, documentation, and the like.

Thanks,

William

-----Original Message-----
From:	William H. Gilmore [SMTP:whgi@csi.com]
Sent:	Friday, January 15, 1999 12:05 AM
To:	'FlexFax Mailing List'
Subject:	flexfax: FW: Hylafax - faxq unable to exec faxsend

Sorry for the repost.  This was my first posting on this list.  Since I
haven't heard any response, I have decided to repost.

Thanks,

William

-----Original Message-----
From:	William H. Gilmore [SMTP:whgi@csi.com]
Sent:	Monday, January 11, 1999 7:21 PM
To:	'FlexFax Mailing List'
Subject:	Hylafax - faxq unable to exec faxsend

I am attempting to setup Hylafax 4.0pl2 on my Linux (RedHat 5.2, kernel
2.0.36) box.  I installed the Hylafax RPM, hylafax-4.0pl2-3rh5.i386.rpm
from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/contrib/hurricane/i
386.
Inbound faxes are working fine; but I receive the following error anytime
that
I send a fax.

Jan  9 21:54:20 linux1 FaxQueuer[7784]: SUBMIT JOB 8
Jan  9 21:55:03 linux1 FaxQueuer[7784]: JOB 8: Send program terminated
     abnormally; unable to exec /usr/sbin/faxsend
Jan  9 21:55:03 linux1 FaxQueuer[7784]: NOTIFY: bin/notify "doneq/q8"
"failed"
     "0:01"

The permissions on /usr/sbin are

drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Jan  8 12:10 sbin

The permissions on /usr/sbin/faxsend are

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        15576 Sep 29 15:45 faxsend

If I su - fax I can see and execute /usr/sbin/faxsend from bash without any
problems.

I do have the server and sesssion trace levels set to 11 but don't get any
error messages other than what is shown.  There are no logs created in
/var/spool/fax/logs either.

I have searched usenet as well as the HylaFax FAQ for a solution, but found 
none.  The FlexFax Mailing List Index on vix.com gives me a 404 error so I
couldn't search there or on the mirror in Germany.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

William Gilmore