[hylafax-users] FIFO.ttyS0: open: No such device or address

[Thomas Nichols <nichols7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a hylafax installation that I've messed up somehow after I 
changed a modem -- so ripped everything out and started over. Initially 
I had problems with faxstat -s prompting for a password, despite 
apparently correct hosts.hfaxd -- consistently failed with HylaFAX 
4.3.0, but (hurrah!) problem is resolved by installing 4.3.1.

However, now I can't set up my modem :-( It's an external one, on ttyS0, 
and probemodem detects it ok. I've tried:

rm /var/spool/fax/FIFO*
reboot
faxsetup
faxaddmodem
faxmodem ttyS0
... and I still get
# faxstate  ttyS0
FIFO.ttyS0: open: No such device or address#

# ls -l /var/spool/fax
total 31
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5426 May  5 22:14 COPYRIGHT
prw------- 1 uucp uucp    0 May  6 00:09 FIFO
prw------- 1 uucp uucp    0 May  6 00:02 FIFO.ttyS0
-rw-r--r-- 1 uucp uucp  303 Dec  3  2005 acct.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp   88 May  5 22:15 archive
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  600 May  5 23:57 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp   88 May  5 23:33 client
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 1992 May  5 22:15 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  112 May  5 22:15 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4632 May  5 22:41 docq
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 3808 May  5 22:44 doneq
drwxr-xr-x 4 uucp uucp  552 May  6 00:03 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  544 May  5 22:15 info
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 8304 May  5 22:15 log
drwxr-xr-x 3 uucp uucp  136 Apr 11 22:53 outgoing
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp   88 May  5 22:15 pollq
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  208 May  5 22:15 recvq
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  112 May  5 22:44 sendq
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp  136 May  5 22:15 status
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp   88 May  5 22:41 tmp

# ls -l /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
-rw------- 1 uucp uucp 13 May  5 21:18 /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.hfaxd

The closest thing I can find in the archives is this: 
http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2000-01/msg00415.php
... but the faxq and hfaxd rocesses seem to be running fine:

# ps -ef | grep fax
uucp      4623     1  0 May05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/faxq
uucp      4625     1  0 May05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax


This is a send-only install, so I'm using faxmodem instead of faxgetty. I

Any suggestions how I could debug this?

Great software, many thanks to all who've worked on it.

OS: Gentoo Linux
HylaFAX: 4.3.1


-- Thomas.


---- Notes from original problem, resolved by upgrade to 4.3.1 ----

Now whenever I `faxstat -s` I get prompted for a password -- for any 
user, including root, whether or not they belong to the 'uucp' or 'fax' 
groups. Permissions on hosts.hfaxd are 0600, owned by fax:fax.

# ls -la /var/spool/fax/etc
...
-rw-------  1 fax  fax     13 May  5 21:18 hosts.hfaxd
...
# cat /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
127\.0\.0\.1

I don't have a /etc/hylafax dir, as suggested by some googling I've tried
# ln -s /var/spool/fax/etc/ /etc/hylafax
without effect.
[Google keywords: "faxstat -s prompts for password", "requires 
password", "always asks for password"].


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