Re: [hylafax-users] problem faxing after version update...!?!

["E. Egon Rinderer" <rindeee@yahoo.com>]

I have had LOADS of problems with the Hylafax package
that shipped with SuSE 8.2.  The best fix I found was
to uninstall the SuSE rpm and install 4.1.5 from
source.  Backup your faxes first.

ER
--- Shafeer Hajamohideen <shafeer@dichtelemente.de>
wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> With you help last week I had setup the fax server
> to send and recieve
> faxes, also automatic fax printing. That was hylafax
> 4.1 under SuSe 7.3
> (AVM B1 ISDN Controller). Since there were other
> issues regarding the
> old version used in SuSe 7.3 including packages like
> Samba & CUPS, I
> decided to update new version of these packages.
> 
> Now I have SuSe 8.2 and sucessfully set up my
> file/printing services.
> But wasn't successful with hylafax. I've installed
> the C4L & C4H came
> with SuSe 8.2, configured the config.faxCAPI to
> number +49.40.77291010
> and tried to send a fax with c2sendfax.
> Unfortunately, I'm not recieving
> the fax to this number, but to another line
> +49.40.77291077 (this is
> because the PBX is configured to redirect the fax to
> 77 if 10 is not
> listening). I thought it may be a problem with the
> line. So I tried to
> send a fax manually from a fax machine (77291077) to
> the installed ISDN
> Controller (77291010), but I don't recieve the fax.
> 
> I looked into the SuSe support for some information
> and I got this;
> http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/kkeil_b1v4_8.2.php
> 
> Could this problem related to the driver
> installation? or is it related
> to hylafax configuration?
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Shafeer.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 14:28, Holger Raschke wrote:
> > >>>Fax received and calling
> '/var/spool/fax/bin/faxrcvd
> > >>>"recvq/fax00001.tif" "faxCAPI" "00000002" ""
> "+49 40 77291010" "" "50"'.
> > >>
> > >>faxrcvd is called with 7 parameters. This is the
> case since version 4.1.3.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I thought if it would really affect this issue,
> when there is a $FILE
> > > then print it to the printer mentioned in the
> script. is that right?
> > 
> > Yes, printing should work anyway, the $5 / $7
> issue affects only the 
> > routing based on the MSN.
> > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > >>>My faxrcvd script looks like this ( where i've
> included a line
> > >>>/usr/bin/tiff2ps -a $FILE | /usr/bin/lpr -P
> Verkauf to print the
> > >>>incoming fax)
> > >>>
> > >>>#! /bin/sh
> > >>>#	$Id: faxrcvd.sh.in,v 1.1 2001/04/15 03:48:16
> darren Exp $
> > >>>#
> > >>># faxrcvd file devID commID error-msg
> destination
> > >>>#
> > >>>if [ $# -lt 5 ]; then
> > >>>    echo "Usage: $0 file devID commID error-msg
> destination"
> > >>>    exit 1
> > >>>fi
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Should I change 5 to 7 here as well ?
> > 
> > As there are minimum 5 parameters passed to
> faxrcvd you can change it or 
> > leave it as is, it will work in both cases.
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>Your faxrcvd-script just demands 5 parameters!
> > >>You have a version conflict.
> > >>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure where lies the version conflict or
> between what?  I've
> > > installed hylafax 4.1 and capi4hylafax for SuSe
> 7.3. Faxes are send
> > > using the command sendfax.
> > > 
> > 
> > The conflict is that the number of parameters,
> that faxrcvd expects, has 
> > been changed from 5 to 7. Since you use an older
> version of hylafax, 
> > where only 5 parameters were passed to the script,
> but a newer version 
> > of C4H (i assume), that already uses 7, the old
> faxrcvd script doesn't 
> > get the correct variables as expected. The MSN has
> in earlier versions 
> > been $5 and is now $7. New $5 and $6 are CIDNumber
> and CIDName.
> > 
> > This is, i think, documented in the C4H
> installation instructions.
> > 
> > > 
> > >>>test -f etc/setup.cache || {
> > >>>    SPOOL=`pwd`
> > >>>    cat<<EOF
> > >>>
> > >>>FATAL ERROR: $SPOOL/etc/setup.cache is missing!
> > >>>
> > >>>The file $SPOOL/etc/setup.cache is not present.
>  This
> > >>>probably means the machine has not been setup
> using the faxsetup(8C)
> > >>>command.  Read the documentation on setting up
> HylaFAX before you
> > >>>startup a server system.
> > >>>
> > >>>EOF
> > >>>    exit 1
> > >>>}
> > >>>. etc/setup.cache
> > >>>
> > >>>INFO=$SBIN/faxinfo
> > >>>FAX2PS=$TIFFBIN/fax2ps
> > >>>TOADDR=FaxMaster
> > >>>#
> > >>># There is no good portable way to find out the
> fully qualified
> > >>># domain name (FQDN) of the host or the TCP
> port for the hylafax
> > >>># service so we fudge here.  Folks may want to
> tailor this to
> > >>># their needs; e.g. add a domain or use
> localhost so the loopback
> > >>># interface is used.
> > >>>#
> > >>>HOSTNAME=`hostname`			# XXX no good way to find
> FQDN
> > >>>PORT=4559				# XXX no good way to lookup
> service
> > >>>
> > >>>FILE="$1"
> > >>>DEVICE="$2"
> > >>>COMMID="$3"
> > >>>MSG="$4"
> > >>>
> > >>>if [ -f $FILE ]; then
> > >>>    #
> > >>>    # Check the sender's TSI and setup to
> dispatch
> > >>>    # facsimile received from well-known
> senders.
> > >>>    #
> > >>>    SENDER="`$INFO $FILE | $AWK -F: '/Sender/ {
> print $2 }'
> > >>>2>/dev/null`"
> > >>>    SENDTO=
> > >>>    if [ -f bin/FaxDispatch ]; then
> > >>>	. bin/FaxDispatch	# NB: FaxDispatch sets
> SENDTO based on $5
> > >>>    fi
> > >>>    (echo "To: $TOADDR"
> > >>>     echo "From: The HylaFAX Receive Agent
> <fax>"
> > >>>     echo "Subject: facsimile received from
> $SENDER";
> > >>>     echo ""
> > >>>     echo "$FILE
> (ftp://$HOSTNAME:$PORT/$FILE):"; $INFO -n $FILE
> > >>>     echo "ReceivedOn: $DEVICE"
> > >>>     if [ "$MSG" ]; then
> > >>>	echo ""
> > >>>	echo "The full document was not received
> because:"
> > >>>	echo ""
> > >>>	echo "    $MSG"
> > >>>	echo ""
> > >>>	echo "    ---- Transcript of session follows
> ----"
> > >>>	echo ""
> > >>>	if [ -f log/c$COMMID ]; then
> > >>>	    $SED -e '/-- data/d' \
> 
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