Re: [hylafax-users] Questions on HylaFAX install on Mac OS X

[Tom Rymes <rymes@mac.com>]

On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 04:40 AM, Dr, Guillemain Geraud wrote:

> I already succeeded to install Hylafax on 10. 2 the problem was to configure, bash does not works on OS X 10.2

Guil, 

Thanks for the help. FYI, OS X 10.2 does include bash. Just type 'bash' at the command prompt, and you are in bash 2.05a. I don't think that this is a problem. With a little help from your e-mail and the instructions from the web, i think I got everything to configure, but i think that there are problems in using the built-in analog modem with HylaFAX.

> so you must modify your configure file, using a disk image with UFS is necessary. I did it on OS X client. My problem
> now is to make it working with an USB ISDN modem from Draytek. efax does not work either. The only fax working with these
> kind of modems is  Stfax with OS 9.2.2. I have been adding the the users uucp, bin, fax with netinfo GID: 66, uid:  10,11,12, shell: /dev/null.

Well, I added the users uucp, fax, and bin. I used the same UID for them all (after an error on the faxsetup script) which was 10. I also greated group uucp with GID of 66 and made the user 'fax' a member. (All of this using NetInfo Manager...)

Next, I executed the command:

'chpass -a "uucp:*:10:66::0:0:uucp:/var/spool/uucp"

as indicated in the instructions. I also installed Ghostscript and built libtiff.

I then created a UFS read-write disk image, copied the tarball there, 
1.) gunzip
2.) tar -xvf
3.) cd

Lucida Grandehylafax-4.1.3
4.) ./configure
5.) make
6.) make install
7.) run faxsetup script

Checking permissions in '/var/spool/hylafax' and '/var/spool/hylafax/etc' reveal a few items with "10" as the group name. That can't be good.

Step 9 of the instructions says to run "mkdir ~fax/dev" This gave me an error of "/dev already exists" or something similar.

I then added the startup items and edited etc.ttys as directed, I used tty.modem as the device name b/c i am using an internal Apple modem. Is that right?

I then ran the startup script and all seemed well. now to test. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any help (if you manged to read this far....),

Tom

PS: what is considered the best tutorial for setting up and configuring HylaFAX in general? I think I might end up installing a lot of Linux machines running HylaFAX in the coming months.