Re: [hylafax-users] hfaxd issue

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

* Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@xxxxxxx> [071031 13:23]:
> A client is still running a version of hylafax which I installed for
> them some years ago.  The site has been sending out hundreds of faxes
> every day for years, but now my client reports:
> 
>   # /etc/init.d/hylafax start
>   HylaFAX:dynamic linker: /usr/local/sbin/faxq: warning: copy relocation size 
>   mismatch for symbol TIFFFaxMainTable
>   dynamic linker: /usr/local/sbin/faxq: warning: copy relocation size 
>   mismatch for symbol TIFFFaxBlackTable
>   dynamic linker: /usr/local/sbin/faxq: warning: copy relocation size 
>   mismatch for symbol TIFFFaxWhiteTable
>   faxq hfaxd (without old protocol & without SNPP support).

Strange - look like the libtiff it was linked to has been changed out
from under it.  Or at least that the linker thinks they no longer match.
 
> I'm unaware of any -v or --version flag for any hylafax binary to
> spit out its version number. Is there one?

It prints them in the log message when it starts.  hfaxd also prints it as
a banner when connected to.

> Anyhow, running strings on faxq reveals 4.2.1, and strings on libtiff.so
> reveals "libtiff.so.3.4b37".
> 
> After chugging along since 2005, what could have changed?

Either the binaries, libraries or linker have changed.

Were there *any* updates done recently?   Do you have tripwire, or
something like that to verify that nothing has changed?

a.

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