Re: flexfax: Installing Hylafax --for Frantz and Canas

[Darren Nickerson <darren@hylafax.org>]

*sigh* talk about flooding a list!!


>>>>> On Sun, 28 May 2000, "Benjamin" == Benjamin Sher wrote:

  Benjamin> Dear Paul Franz and Carlos Canas:

Ok, and Dear rest of the list members as well . . . . *sheesh*

  Benjamin> I tried to contact you directly (by hitting Reply) but my message 
was
  Benjamin> returned to me.

Carlos Canas <carlos@cancansystems.com>
"Paul A. Franz, P.E." <paul@eucleides.com>

try harder next time please.

  Benjamin> First, I wish to thank both Carlos Canas and you for your gracious 
help
  Benjamin> with Hylafax. Thanks to the advice offered by both of you, I am now
  Benjamin> close to being able to use Hylafax.

I've yet to find this discussion anywhere . . . 

  Benjamin> I downloaded all the Red Hat files Paul recommended, then followed
  Benjamin> Carlos' instructions on how to use faxsetup.

  Benjamin> Here is what I have installed:

  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa |grep ghostscript
  Benjamin> ghostscript-Both-5.50-9mdk
  Benjamin> ghostscript-X-5.50-9mdk
  Benjamin> ghostscript-fonts-6.0-2
  Benjamin> ghostscript-6.01-1
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$

RedHat-6.2 comes with ghostscript-5.5, which would have been fine.

  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa |grep hylafax
  Benjamin> hylafax-4.1beta2-3rh6
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$

*grrrrrr* you should not have this.

  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q libtiff
  Benjamin> libtiff-3.5.5-2
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q libtiff-devel
  Benjamin> libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$

This is fine, now that you are using my test RPM. It would not have been fine 
with the previous RPM (which you should have been using).

  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q mgetty-sendfax
  Benjamin> mgetty-sendfax-1.1.21-6
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$
  Benjamin> mgetty-sendfax-1.1.21-6

THIS IS WRONG!!!! Somewhere along the line you made the same horrible decision 
that Paul made . . . you installed my HylaFAX RPM with --force or --nodeps. 
You smashed mgetty+sendfax all to hell (it uses much of the same directory 
structure and some of the same binary filenames) but left enough of it around 
to confuse the issue totally (you'll end trying to submit faxes to HylaFAX by 
executing mgetty+sendfax's 'sendfax' program!!). You need to do the following:

rpm -e mgetty+sendfax
rpm -Uvh --force hylafax-4.1beta2-3rh6.i386.rpm

then fix up your HylaFAX config files (you may need to run faxsetup again).


  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q mawk
  Benjamin> mawk-1.2.2-3mdk
  Benjamin> [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$

  Benjamin> With Hylafax finally installed correctly, I proceeded to Faxsetup.

  Benjamin> 1) I got the /bin/egetty missing message

Harmless.

  Benjamin> 2) I got a message telling me that the ghostscript 5.50 directory 
is
  Benjamin> missing.
[snip]
  Benjamin> Everything seemed all right except for the ghostscript 5.50 
"error". I
  Benjamin> now proceeded to test Hylafax:


Not sure what error message you got here . . . 


  Benjamin> Should I run faxmodem for each configured modem [yes]?
  Benjamin> /usr/sbin/faxmodem ttyS1

  Benjamin> Done verifying system setup.
  Benjamin> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# sendfax -d phoneno /etc/hosts
  Benjamin> /usr/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for 
"Courier-Bold".
  Benjamin> Usage: /usr/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-F
  Benjamin> fontdir(s)]
  Benjamin> [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V #] files...

  +> out.ps

  Benjamin> Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
  Benjamin> Error converting data; command was "/usr/sbin/textfmt -B -f
  Benjamin> Courier-Bold       -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxfLGfRp
  Benjamin> </etc/hosts"
  Benjamin> [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]#

  Benjamin> This is as far as I got. Am I almost there? What does that error 
above
  Benjamin> mean?


You should downgrade to the ghostscript that came with your mandrake. DO THIS 
BEFORE INSTALLING THE HYLAFAX RPM!!! The ghostscript people changed the 
directory that fonts are kept in . .. without recompiling the RPM it will 
always be looking for gs fonts in the wrong place. Whoever told you to upgrade 
ghostscript gave you bad advice. It took me ages to get hylafax and 
ghostscript behaving on Paul's machine . . . there's no reason you should 
repeat this silliness.


  Benjamin> Please remember that I am only interested in using Hylafax as a 
client
  Benjamin> to send and receive faxes. Secondly, my system is an AMD K6-2 400, 
which
  Benjamin> is usually translated to mean a 586, yet the setup program talks 
about a
  Benjamin> 686 installation. What does this mean, please? Can my system 
handle it?

Your system can handle it just fine.

  Benjamin> All my thanks again to both of you and to several others who wrote 
in
  Benjamin> but whose advice, for one reason or another, was not quite 
appropriate.

Hope this helps. 

-Darren