Re: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE

[Michael Lyngbøl <michael@lyngbol.dk>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:23:43AM +0200, Victor M. Moreno wrote:
> It happened to me;
> try to move the content of folder afm of hylafax package to
> /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/

cd /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/
for file in `ls /usr/local/lib/afm/`; do ln -s /usr/local/lib/afm/$file
. ; done

did the trick

Thank you!
/Michael

> 
> Hope it help
> 
> Regards
> 
> Victor
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Lyngbøl <michael@lyngbol.dk>
> To: Bernd Proissl <news@proissl.de>
> Cc: <flexfax@sgi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE
> 
> 
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:35:37PM +0200, Bernd Proissl wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > have a look at
> > > http://www.hylafax.org/patches/tiff-3.5-interfaces.patch
> >
> > OK - I suppose it's to apply to 4.1b2? Done that, build and installed
> > it, but now "sendfax" fails:
> >
> > lyngbol@box ~$ sendfax -d 12345678 ~/tmp/dummy.php
> > /usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for
> > "Courier-Bold".
> > Usage: /usr/local/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname]
> > [-F fontdir(s)] [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V
> > #] files... >out.ps
> > Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
> > Error converting data; command was "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f
> > Courier-Bold -p 11 -s default >/tmp//faxsndM22999
> > </home/lyngbol/tmp/dummy.php"
> > lyngbol@box ~$
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Thanks
> > /Michael
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bernd
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com
> [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> > > > Behalf Of Michael Lyngbøl
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:00 PM
> > > > To: flexfax@sgi.com
> > > > Subject: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to make HylaFax 4.0pl2 work on a FreeBSD/i386 4.0-STABLE
> > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > I've installed HylaFax from ports-collection
> (/usr/ports/comm/hylafax),
> > > > which worked fine.
> > > >
> > > > /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup has been used to setup the system.
> > > >
> > > > hfaxd is run out of inetd:
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ grep fax /etc/inetd.conf
> > > > hylafax stream  tcp     nowait  fax     /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd
>   hfaxd -I
> > > >
> > > > faxq is started:
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ ps axu|grep fax
> > > > uucp     27768  0.0  1.1  2192 1452  ??  Ss   11:27AM   0:00.02 faxq
> > > >
> > > > Feed the system some dummy fax:
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ sendfax -n -d 87303644 \
> > > > /usr/share/doc/bind/misc/style.txt
> > > > request id is 2 (group id 2) for host localhost (1 file)
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$
> > > >
> > > > and nothing happend! why I havn't figured out. "faxstat -s" gives:
> > > >
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ faxstat -s
> > > > HylaFAX scheduler on ymer: Running
> > > >
> > > > JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
> > > > 2    127 R lyngbo 87303644      0:0   0:12
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$
> > > >
> > > > lyngbol@ymer ~$ top
> > > > ...
> > > >   PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU
> > > > COMMAND
> > > > 28271 root       58   0  2300K  1520K CPU1   1   4:33 99.02% 99.02%
> faxq
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > the above process just seems to have gone wild?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > root@ymer.pil.dk fax$ faxstate -s ready cuaa0
> > > > FIFO.cuaa0: open: Device not configured
> > > > root@ymer.pil.dk fax$
> > > >
> > > > why?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > System: FreeBSD/i386 4.0-STABLE (as of april 8th)
> > > > modem: Microcom Deskporte S 33.6
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > /Michael
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>