[hylafax-users] Re: Re[2]: sendfax not sending faxes

["Bernd Proissl" <news@proissl.de>]

a bug in hylafax leads to faxq eating up all CPU time:
hylafax is incompatible with libtiff 3.5.x.
Do you have 3.5.x installed on your system?

see
http://www.hylafax.org/patches/tiff-3.5-interfaces.patch
or downgrade to libtiff 3.4

search the archives.


The password problem should be resolved by the mentioned etc/host (or
etc/host.conf) or
similar, search the archives also.


bernd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org]On Behalf Of ben @
> instantemail.net
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:12 PM
> To: Damian Ivereigh
> Cc: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject: [hylafax-users] Re[2]: sendfax not sending faxes
>
>
> Umm, no. It used to work sending faxes from mx1 to members. Back
> around the first of the month mx1 began getting a password prompt for
> unknown reasons and failing because this all happens in a perl
> program and there's no way to enter a password non-interactively. At
> management's request I removed HylaFAX from the members machine and
> reinstalled it. This changed nothing about the problems HylaFAX is
> having. After some more logging configuration and investigation I have
> found `sendfax -n -v -d <localfaxnumber> <text_file>` hangs at
> (indented for legibility)
>    Apply DisplayNumber rules to "<localfaxnumber>"
>    --> return result "<localfaxnumber>"
> and at the end of the log is:
>    Jun  6 09:59:47 members HylaFAX[16468]: <--- 213 CHOPTHRESHOLD
> set to 3.
>    Jun  6 09:59:47 members HylaFAX[16468]: command: JPARM
> DOCUMENT /tmp/doc5.ps
>    Jun  6 09:59:47 members HylaFAX[16468]: <--- 200 Added
> document /tmp/doc5.ps as docq/doc5.ps.13.
>    Jun  6 09:59:47 members HylaFAX[16468]: command: JSUBM
>
>    This all deals with operation on a single host. I'll play with the
> password problem coming from another host after I get the faxhost
> fixed. What should my next step be in "debugging" this?
>
>                                                  Tuesday, June 06, 2000
> On Tuesday, June 06, 2000 sometime around 3:59:40 AM Damian quoth:
>
> DI> So let me get this straight. Everything works find when you
> run sendfax on members. If you run sendfax on mx1 (pointed at
> members via the hylafax protocol) then you get the password prompt. The
> DI> password prompt is your problem.
>
> DI> I have never tried to utilise the hylafax protocol between
> machines, so I am not sure I can give you much advice, however
> from what I know there is a file called /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts which
> DI> controls this. The man page for it is hosts(5F) (run 'man 5f hosts').
>
> DI> I am hoping this will help you figure out what to do.
>
> DI> Damian
>
> DI> "ben @ instantemail.net" wrote:
> >>
> >> In the end yes the faxes will originate (as far as hylafax is
> >> concerned) on MX1, but the sendfax problem currently (which I want to
> >> get fixed before I tackle the PASS problem) is on 'localhost'
> >> (members). If I try to originate a fax from MX1 and have it sent to
> >> members (via the hylafax protocol) it prompts for a password and I
> >> don't have any idea what may have caused that change. Currently on
> >> members I have this:
> >>
> >> members: faxstat -s
> >> HylaFAX scheduler on localhost: Running
> >> Modem cuaa0 (+1.828.258.3944): Waiting for modem to come free
> >> Modem cuaa1 (+1.828.258.3944): Running and idle
> >>
> >> JID  Pri S  Owner Number       Pages Dials     TTS Status
> >> 8    127 R    ben 2583944       0:0   0:12
> >> 10   127 B    ben 2583944       0:0   0:12         Blocked by
> concurrent job
> >>
> >> members: ps ax | grep "[f]ax"
> >> 19889  ??  Is     0:00.02 /usr/local/sbin/faxq
> >> 19895  ??  R    149:18.18 /usr/local/sbin/faxq
> >> 19917  ??  S      0:00.42 /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0 cuaa0
> >> 19920  ??  I      0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa1 cuaa1
> >> 49562  ??  Is     0:00.04 hfaxd -s 444 -i 4559
> >>
> >> : cat /var/spool/lock/LCK..cuaa0
> >>      19889
> >>
> >>    Thus the faxq process running at PID 19889 (without over 50 days
> >> worth of processing time) has the modem locked as if it's about to
> >> send a fax, but nary a peep doth issue from said cuaa0 and I can't
> >> find any trace of communications with the modem. Both of these jobs
> >> were generated with sendfax -n [-v] -d AAABBBB <some_text_file>.
> >>
> >> The sendpage command actually dials the pager number, but it's just a
> >> plain old numeric pager so it complains about "no carrier" which is
> >> fine for now.
> >> Also...
> >> members: cat /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts
> >> localhost
> >> 127.0.0.1
> >> *.mydom1$
> >> *.mydom2$
> >> *.mydom3$
> >>
> >> There are 3 domains on the local subnet and I will eventually want all
> >> three of them to be able to send faxes.
> >>
> >>                                                  Monday, June 05, 2000
> >> On Monday, June 05, 2000 sometime around 9:38:13 PM Damian quoth:
> >>
> >> DI> Do the faxes originate on "mx1" and then get sent to
> machine "members". How do they get there? Are you using rsh or
> something like that?
> >>
> >> DI> Damian
> >>
> >> DI> "ben @ instantemail.net" wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> hylafax-users,                 Monday, June 05, 2000
> >> >>
> >> >>   I work for a company that uses hylafax to deliver faxes (hmm who
> >> >> woulda thought?) and recently (last week) the hylafax process on a
> >> >> machine called members began prompting the machine called MX1 for a
> >> >> password where it never did before. I don't have any idea why this
> >> >> happened and I could use some pointers.
> >> >>    In an attempt to "fix" the situation I removed hylafax from the
> >> >> members machine and reinstalled it to no avail. Currently sendfax
> >> >> appears to complete normally but the document never makes it to the
> >> >> modem so I'm thinking something is awry in the document preparation
> >> >> process. The jobs get sent to the docq directory and I have noticed
> >> >> that two faxq processes exist at some points (until I kill
> the all the
> >> >> faxq/hfaxd servers and restart them) with one of the faxq processes
> >> >> chewing up some serious resources.
> >> >>    I've never used hylafax or ghostscript (or any other postscript
> >> >> application) before so this is all a learning process. I
> looked around
> >> >> on the website but I can't find help there for my problem.
> >> >>    The machines are FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386's and are
> running hylafax
> >> >> v4.0pl2. The modems are MultiTech 28.8 Data/FAX modems. Can someone
> >> >> shed some light on this problem (and hopefully offer some guidance)
> >> >> for me?
> >> >>
>
> --Ben
> mailto:ben@instantemail.net
>
>
>
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