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

[David Forrest <drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Ramon F. McDougall 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.
> I looked at /etc/default/ but there is not hylafax.
>
> [root@Hermes /]# cd /etc/default
> [root@Hermes default]# ls
> nss  useradd
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ramon

Ramon, I've been off the list for a while and out of town so I've missed 
some of your prior notes.

I am running Fedora 9 and had a dickens of a time getting it all set up 
the first time so I feel for you considering the frustration I had. I 
remember you said you were running F9.  If so try the following.

First: run the command chkconfig to see what gets started in each 
runlevel.  hylafax should run ("on") in runlevels 2,3,4, and 5, and be 
"off" in 0,1, and 6. faxsetup should have created this setup.

Second: run the command dmesg | grep tty to see what tty's have been 
found. One of them should be your modem.

Third: check to see if there is a config file for your modem in 
/var/spool/hylafax/etc.  File should be named config.ttyXXX (replace XXX 
with whatever you found in step 2)  If it does not exist, rerun 
faxaddmodem using the ttyXXX you found in step 2.

Fourth: Check to see if faxgetty is running.  ps axl |grep faxgetty should 
show /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty ttyXXX if it is.  If not, just start it as 
root  as faxgetty ttyXXX.  It is better to have it always running as it 
forks for each call; mine seems to be the same pid for weeks on end and 
runs as user uucp.  I do use the F9  /etc/event.d/ttyXXX script, though, 
which should respawn it if it gets killed for any reason.  See the man 
init and man telinit pages.  Thsi script was installed by the make install 
command as I compiled hylafax from source.  I do not know how the rpm 
binaries do it but I assume they "just do it".

There is a short page here: 
http://maplepark.com/~drf/consults/FaxServer.php
about my system and config files.



David Forrest                     e-mail   drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri


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