Re: flexfax: Error message - unable to exec /usr/sbin/faxsend ??

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Les Hazelton wrote:
> 
> I installed hylafax-4.0pl2-3rh5 on my Linuc Mandrake 5.3 system using an
> rpm I got from
> ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/hylafax/binary/.  My kernel is 2.2.6.
>
>[snip] 
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        15576 Sep 29  1998
> /usr/sbin/faxsend*

This is one more thing I find curious.  I, too am running 4.0pl2 (this
is on a Debian system).  Look at my listing of faxsend:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       371332 Aug  5  1998 faxsend

Seems quite extraordinarily larger than yours...  'Course, yours might
be linked against some dynamic library where mine is statically linked. 
That might be a clue, too!  Try 'ldd /usr/sbin/faxsend'.  I get:

        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x40018000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4004e000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4005d000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x4008a000)
        libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x4008d000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400d2000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400f0000)
        libjpeg.so.6a => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6a (0x401df000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Have you tried just running faxsend from the command line?  Maybe you'd
get a better error message that way...

Sometimes you have to be careful about these RPMs that are lying
around.  Some don't work at all, and some have special requirements
(have you looked at the README or INSTALL?).  Stuff like this is why I'm
pretty happy with Debian: for every .deb package, there's a *Debian*
maintainer who is making sure it runs on that distribution.