Re: flexfax: hylafax&suse 6.3

[George Zeigler <genz1968@mtu-net.ru>]

Hello,
	I use SuSE 6.2 (HylaFax v4.0pl2-71) and a LinkSys 10/100 + 56k combo
PCMCIA card.

On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Frank Heine-Silberg wrote:
> 
> > Hello, my despiration is growing !
> > 
> > I´ using the suse 6.3 frontend with susefax and HYLAfax. My Equipment 
> > is an 3Com 10/100Lan+56k modem and after installation of the rpm´s I 
> > can sent my faxes everywhere I want to. But after a reboot there is no 
> > possibility to fax anymore.
> > While installation of »faxsetup« the program doesn´t find »egetty«.
	Everybody who uses SuSE has this.  No big deal.  Go to
the www.suse.com and type susefax in the help database if you want to
read about it.  Just ignore it.

> > But I have installed the rpm »mgetty«
> > the file of installation is: var/spool/fax/etc.
> 
> *GACK*. We have *GOT* to modify that script. egetty and vgetty are
> compatible components from the mgetty software. But a standard mgetty
> installation has a number of directo conflicts with HylaFAX!
	Hmm.  Maybe that is where I am having a problem.  Yes, close look at
SuSE manual says two ways to fax:
1)	mgetty + sendfax
or
2)	HylaFax
	
> Simplify: get the mgetty out of there,
	Just went into YAST(Yet Another Setup Program - for SuSE) and
uninstalled mgetty.  Hope this Nico guy knows what he's talking about:-)

> and re-install the HylaFAX carefully.
	Carefully?  I push a button and pray.

> Be aware that there are a stack of patches, incorporated in the
latest 
> 4.1beta1 and beta2 sources and 4.1beta1 RPM, for recent Linux releases.
> 
> > I´ve read the man pages and your hylafax faq´s, but I don´t find an 
> > answe
> > r to my problem.
	Even if you found it, you wouldn't understand it.  Not a slight to you
by the way.

> > Even the mailing list doen´t know somthing usefull
> 
> Start from a clean installation, and stay away from custom front ends of
> unknown lineage. After installation, send a simple test fax of text files
> just to make sure it works and works upon restart.
> 
> Also remember that the RPM's at the www.hylafax.org site were built under
> RedHat 6.x, not SuSE Linux.
	Yeah what's the story on this?  RedHat is definitely the leader, but
there are other Installs - SuSE, Debian, Caldera, etc.

Thanks
George
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