Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX not receiving faxes.

["Ramon F. McDougall" <rfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis M. Linton wrote:
> Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> > * Ramon F. McDougall <rfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [081125 21:26]:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The reason I included that one is because my system did not create  
> > > ttyS1. I thought that all those files are related somehow. I 
> > > figured  that if you have your ttyS1 for your serial device that it 
> > > would write a  corresponding file to event file. That makes it 
> > > interesting even though  the distributions are different the files 
> > > are similar. I will edit mine  tty1 and try to start that warlock 
> > > faxgetty deamon.
> >
> >
> > Look at /etc/default/hylafax, where you "configure" HylaFAX service
> > start/stop/options in debian (and thus ubuntu).  You tell it in there 
> > whether
> > you're runing faxgettys already from init (well, I guess in ubuntu 
> > you'll have
> > to figure it out in upstart/event.d), or if you want to make the rc.d 
> > script
> > start them for you.
> >
> > You have to make sure your config matches your "init".
> >
> > a.
>
>
> Good stuff, Aidan... except that Ramon is running FC9.  I had forgot 
> about the faxgetty config in /etc/default/hylafax.  I had specified 
> that, if there is no faxgetty entry in /etc/initab (which there is 
> not), then USE_FAXGETTY=yes.  So there is a line around here somewhere 
> that starts faxgetty.
>
> Ramon, the active lines from my /etc/default/hylafax, in case it is of 
> some use to you, are:
>
> if grep -E '^[^#]*:respawn:/usr/sbin/fax(getty|modem).*$' /etc/inittab 
> >/dev/null 2>&1
> then
>     USE_FAXGETTY=init
> else
>     USE_FAXGETTY=yes
> fi
> RUN_HYLAFAX=1
>
> Note that there is nothing in my /etc/initab so USE_FAXGETTY=yes after 
> processing this script.
>
> Doesn't FC9 have some sort of package management system equivalent to 
> apt or Synaptic or dpkg in Debian?  You are in a bit of a jam if you 
> cannot readily remove apps you do not want or which need to be 
> re-installed.
>
> Dennis
I'm hosed, I have an /etc/default but it does not have halafax in it. In 
regards to a package manager there is one but I thing it's for 
software/packages that came with the system not packages that were 
installed manually. I'm not really sure I am just a beginer.

Thanks Again,

Ramon


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