Re: [hylafax-users] Newbie setup help: Debian/Ubuntu

[Ben Keene <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Giuseepe and Lee:

Thank you both very much for the suggestions.  I ended up creating yet another clean install of ubuntu and installing the hylafax-server and hylafax-client packages.

After running faxaddmodem, installing a new physical modem (apparently my PCI modem wasn't up to snuff), and rebooting several times to get the changes to take (I haven't figured out how to alert the hylafax software that it needs to reread it's configuration) it worked!

I'm not sure which version of hylafax the ubuntu distro has, but I had to use the old syntax for the caller ID information. CIDName and CIDNumber.

Now I just need to putter around with scripts for handling the fax once it arrives.

Thank you all for your help!

Sincerely,
Ben

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:

Hi Ben,

Il giorno mer, 14/11/2007 alle 17.48 -0500, Ben Keene ha scritto:
  

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? **
    

[...]

I think you should follow these steps:

1. configure your modem using faxaddmodem. This should create a
file /etc/hylafax/config.ttyS0;
2. check /etc/defaults/hylafax. RUN_HYLAFAX should be "1" and you may
change (if you don't like default value) USE_FAXGETTY;
3. restart hylafax with "invoke-rc.d hylafax restart"

the start procedure will act only if RUN_HYLAFAX is 1. During startup
the variable USE_FAXGETTY will be used the determine how to start
faxgetty: if you leave the variable at "yes", then faxgetty is started
there; if you change in "init" then you should configure your inittab
file.

If anything goes wrong, please check /var/log/syslog and post here its
content.

Bye,
Giuseppe


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