Re: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

["Geoff Tait" <GTait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sweet, I use class 1 because

a)    It works fine for me so far

b)    I've read about a lot of problems with fax modems using class 2.0. USR modems in particular, like the one I have.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Verhoeven [mailto:Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 2:07 PM
To: Geoff Tait
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

Thanks Geoff - all of those steps are familiar. Although I also tried not having faxgetty running at all and using faxmodem since I only require outbound service. This box I'm setting up is also only used by one person so I'll stick with 777 for now. Also, I've tried both Class 1 and 2 with no improved results. In my travels I changed a bunch of other stuff aswell like setting up the hosts.hfaxd entry for client access (using WHFC from Windows) and modem related config entries I can't even remember right now ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Tait [mailto:GTait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 1:50 PM
To: Peter Verhoeven
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

Here's some notes I wrote when I setup the server on mdk9.2 - I'm pretty sure this is all I needed to do, but make sure the pdf exists for the test, of course.

 

Note that nobody else logs onto my system, if you have other people logging on, you should find out the correct owner and permission to set in the bin dir instead of 777 like I have below. 

 

And please, let me know if you find out what those permissions are meant to be. 

 

 

Geoff

 

urpmi ghostscript-fonts

urpmi hylafax-server

urpmi hylafax-client

faxsetup -server

• accept all defaults

faxaddmodem ttyS0

• give phone number of fax modem
• give Local identification string - this identifies the sending fax machine to the receiving fax machine and is printed at the top of fax pages
• I tell it that the modem is a class 1 and it works.  Class 1 is better because most faxmodems firmware for class 2 is usually buggy.  NOTE:  You will need to find out what classes your modem supports, you may net get a choice.  See footnotes for instructions on how to find this out.
• accepting defaults for others is ok

echo mo:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 >> /etc/inittab

chmod 777 /var/spool/fax/bin/*

 

Testing

Sendfax -n -d 3866XXXX /tmp/fax.pdf

        -n tells sendfax not to send a cover page

        -d is for destination phone number

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Verhoeven [mailto:Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 1:44 PM
To: Geoff Tait
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

It's definitely ttyS1 when probing it with minicom or probemodem... I'll lookup the man, and failing that maybe reinstall the whole OS and Hylafax, because I've made so many changes by now that maybe if I go back to a clean install and just fix the permissions issue on the fax/bin directory it just might work...

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Tait [mailto:GTait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 1:30 PM
To: Peter Verhoeven
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

I haven't had that error before.  You might want to read the wedged man page and go from there.  Is the modem definitely on ttyS1 and not ttyS0?

 

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Verhoeven [mailto:Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 9:29 AM
To: Geoff Tait
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

Thanks Geoff - that got me past another hurdle. Unfortunately there seem to be further problems after the document conversion stage. Having real trouble getting Hylafax to play with my modem, eventhough the modem works fine when probing it with minicom.

 

The syslog file is reporting messages like:

 

/dev/ttyS1: Can not initialize modem.

MODEM TIMEOUT: reading line from modem

Unable to setup modem on /dev/ttyS1; giving up after 2 attempts

MODEM /dev/ttyS1 appears to be wedged

MODEM WEDGED: bin/wedged "ttyS1" "/dev/ttyS1"

 

I have tried faxaddmodem several times; it seems to detect my Banksia modem best as Class 1 (class 2 is supported but it think it's a Rockwell).

 

Possibly I'm not getting the faxmodem configuration string right. The at+ftm=? command returns:

3,24,48,72,73,74,96,97,98,121,122,145,146

 

So I'm calling faxmodem like this:

 

faxmodem -c '(0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),0,0,(0-7)' ttyS1

 

I've also tried playing with the mgetty init string with no joy yet.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Tait [mailto:GTait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 4:19 PM
To: Peter Verhoeven
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

The problem with the rpm is the permissions in the /var/spool/fax/bin directory.

All the conversion (formatter) files are in that directory, and they need to be executable. 

On my system, I set the permissions to 777 for that directory and it works, but only I have permission to log on to the machine.  (however I still don't like setting 777 even though nobody else can log onto it)

 

I don't know what the recommended permissions are or who is supposed to own the files in that directory, but I am interested in finding out if somebody can help us out.

 

Anyway, that should get you up and running.

 

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Verhoeven [mailto:Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 3:57 PM
To: 'hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [hylafax-users] Mandrake 9.2 Hylafax not quite working?

Hello,

 

I have spent a great deal of time getting Hylafax to work for me to no avail. Maybe someone can offer some advice as I'm running out of ideas. Here's the scenario:

 

Hylafax installed fine, runs ok (i.e. the queue management part etc.).

Modem is set up on ttyS1. Minicom talks with it fine.

Hylafax is using class 1 with it.

I only require outbound service, so I don't setup faxgetty at all. (I have tried just in case but that raised another set of problems; i.e. modem wedged, no FIFO device etc).

Using "faxmodem" script seems fine. Although the faxstat will perpetually report "initializing server".

The senfax job fails. Checking the syslog indicates that the problem is during the postscript conversion, i.e. "no_formatter".

This happens whether I send native PS or Ascii direct from sendfax.

 

Any input much appreciated...

 

Thanks,

Peter Verhoeven

 

 

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