[hylafax-users] Hyla configuration (similar to Q301)

[Szabo Roland <szroland@freemail.hu>]

Hello all,

I'm experiencing some problems while trying to install 
hylafax, version
4.0pl2, from a Debian package, downloaded via apt. The 
server is running
Potato Linux 2.2 kernel and a lot of other services 
including a Roxen
webserver, Samba, Postfix. 
I'd like to refer to a FAQ question, no. 301
(www.hylafax.org/FAQ/Q301.php), that explains the very 
same problem I'm
experiencing, namely after install, trying to run faxstat 
returns an error,
stating:

|linux-server:~# faxstat
|Service not available, remote server closed connection

In the meanwhile, syslog also has an entry:

|Aug  8 17:43:55 linux-server Assertion failed "Invalid Str
[] index", file 
|"../util/Str.h" line 116.

Looking into strace faxstat, the following lines seem to be 
relevant:

|fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
|old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
|=
|_llseek(4, 0, 0xbffff514, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE 
(Illegal seek)
|rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
|read(3, "", 1024)                       = 0
|write(2, "Service not available, remote se"..., 54Service 
not available,
|remote
|write(2, "\n", 1
|)                       = 1

In a working hyla environment, querying strace faxstat is 
said to show a real
message instead of read(3, "", 1024)
                           ^^
I cannot copy that here, as I hasn't seen it myself. 
That means to me, that while faxstat can make contact with 
hfaxd or whatever, 
hfaxd fails to respond with a valid answer.

The reply to that FAQ question was that most likely hfaxd 
was not running.
Let me show what "ps uax | grep fax" returns:

|linux-server:~# ps uax | grep fax
|root     16655  0.0  1.7  2452 1120 ?        S    19:01   
0:00
|/usr/sbin/faxq
|root     16657  0.0  1.6  2788 1056 ?        S    19:01   
0:00
|/usr/sbin/hfaxd -i 4559 -o 4557 -s 444
|root     17636  0.0  1.8  2576 1184 ?        S    19:21   
0:00
|/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1
|root     17871  0.0  0.6  1108  408 tty2     S    19:33   
0:00 grep fax

All necessary processes running, I guess.

I tried everything with the configure files created by the 
deb package, editing
them manually or using faxsetup, faxaddmodem utilities. 
Neither solved this 
problem for me.

Telneting localhost at port 4559 returns the same as 
described in the FAQ
page.

Let me apologize, just in case question Q301 was answered 
in more
detail in the mailing list, but I myself had litte 
opportunity to read through
the mailing list archives, and was unable to find anything.
I'd be most greatful, if someone could answer the above 
question, sending an
e-mail to szroland@freemail.hu and/or varadi@mithrandir.hu.

Thank you very much

Roland Szabó



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