Re: [hylafax-users] No /etc/hylafax after install

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

* A J Stiles <hylafax_resp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [070207 04:59]:
 
> The upshot of all of which is:
> 
> If you compiled your Hylafax from source, and accepted all the defaults, it 
> will put its configuration files in /var/spool/hylafax/etc/.  If you 
> installed a Hylafax RPM or DEB package from your distributor, then it most 
> probably will put its configuration files in somewhere like /etc/hylafax/.  

Just a small clarification:

HylaFAX (stock) configuration files are read from 2 places, depending on their
purpose:

FAX_SPOOLDIR "/" FAX_ETCDIR (defaults to /var/spool/hylafax/etc)

  This are where the "fax server operations" config files are,
  specifically:
    $SPOOL/etc/config		faxq config file
    $SPOOL/etc/config.<devid>	faxgetty/faxsend/pagesend device config file
  and many of the referenced files that faxq/faxgetty/faxsend use, like
  callid, etc are defaulted to be found in there as well.
  An admin user actually can edit/manage these files through the FTP
  like nature of the HylaFAX Client-server protocol and the permision
  restrictions of hfaxd.

FAX_LIBDATA (defaults to /usr/local/lib/fax)
  This is where "HylaFAX Application" configuration files are stored,
  like:
    hfaxd.conf
    sendfax.conf
    hyla.conf
    faxmail.conf
    sendpage.conf
    faxcover.ps
    typerules
  The strange one in here is hfaxd.conf, which is a "fax server
  operations" config, but was most likely kept out of the chroot hfaxd
  operates under as a precaution.

The debian packages are slightly more complicated than that because
debian's package policy mandates that any config files *must* be stored
under /etc/.  This means that the debian packages has patches to
maintain a "twinning" configs, where it tries to synchronize
/etc/hylafax (it's FAX_LIBDATA) with the config files also in
$SPOOL/etc.

a.

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Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
Senior Software Developer                          +1 215 825-8700 x8103
iFAX Solutions, Inc.                                http://www.ifax.com/

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