[hylafax-users] Newbie question: Unable to receive faxes consistently

[Ben Keene <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all.

I apologize up front for being a newbie. But I'm missing some steps 
somewhere and as much as I've search the documentation, I can't figure 
this out.  I think my real question is   ** How do I setup the machine 
to run the faxgetty program? **

Here's what I've done so far:

I started a few different times now to try and get this up and running.  
First I downloaded an ubunutu/debian linux install from the VMWare 
appliance site.    It has a valid install, and I was able to get the 
modem configured so that when I sent a fax to it, it did dump the TIFF 
image into the proper folder.  However, I had to manually start the 
faxgetty program and as soon as the document came in, it stopped.

Because of this, I cannot tell if that was the reason that the sending 
fax machine said the fax failed.

Do I have something miss-configured so that hfaxd does not handle the 
faxgetty itself?


In addition to the pre-built VMware appliance,  I've also setup an 
ubuntu install and tried the ubuntu hylafax package and another one 
where I installed hylafax directly from source.  None of them show 
faxgetty in the process list unless I run it manually. My next step is 
to try and install the source forge package onto a true debian 
installation (still working on getting it installed.)

In case it isn't painfully obvious, I have much experience with 
unix-like systems, but only as a user and not as an administrator.  So 
I'm really sorry for asking for the hand holding .

My purpose is to setup a (virtual) machine where I'll be able to just 
receive faxes, and FTP them out to get further processed.This box will 
be pretty well segregated so I'm not overly concerned with my limited 
security knowledge. The only in bound service will be the fax modem (and 
possibly SSH for configuration) and some outbound services for getting 
the faxes out of the server.

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
Ben



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