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

["Dennis M. Linton" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ramon F. McDougall wrote:
> Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> > * Dennis M. Linton <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [081125 22:51]:
> >
> >  
> > > If you do not have much invested in your FC9 setup, it might be a 
> > > good  idea to dump it and install Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid).  It is a 
> > > very user  and noob friendly OS.  Everything you might want for your 
> > > Hylafax setup  except maybe AvantFax, is in the repositories - that 
> > > is, built to  install and run correctly on Ubuntu.  Ubuntu is a 
> > > flavour of Debian, by  the way.  I prefer the gnome desktop while 
> > > others like KDE (Kubuntu); I  find KDE visually noisy and confusing 
> > > while everything makes perfect  sense in Ubuntu.  Could just be me (I 
> > > have about exactly zero short term  memory - I have been known to put 
> > > my coffee down and lose it with out  ever leaving my desk).
> > >
> > > Get Ubuntu - I think you will find things easier.
> > >     
> >
> > Or, just figure out the requirements for the FC9 packaged version...
> >
> > Changing to debian (which in the long run *will* pay off, but hey, I'm 
> > biased
> > ;-) from something he has "sort of figured out" to someone who's 
> > already not
> > very comfortable with unix environment isn't a simple task, as much as 
> > ubuntu
> > claims "it just works"...
> >
> > The only thing ubuntu (well, more spcifically, Debian and it's 
> > derivatives)
> > have going for you in this case is that theres two people *here* 
> > familiar with
> > it, and it's HylaFAX packaging, one of them intimately...
> >
> > There's *got* to be other users on this list using recent 
> > FC/RHEL/CentOS who
> > know what is going on with HylaFAX packaging on those systems... 
> > a.
> >
> >   
> Thanks for your input. I'm glad that David  came to the rescue. His 
> system is running on FC9. The whole thing was that faxgetty was not 
> running. Once that was determined
> and started the system was up and running. Being a NooB, is hard to 
> figure things out. For instance I tried many time to start faxgetty as 
> root from the command line but
> after typing the command it did not returned back to this: [root@Hermes 
> /]# It appeared that the system was hung, just a blinking cursor so I 
> just close the terminal  and it was never started. Another thing I was 
> doing a ps -ef and I would never see faxgetty. Now I know that ps axl 
> |grep faxgetty  will return status of the daemon. It has been a true 
> learning experience which I don't mind albeit frustrating.
>
> I'm going to build an Ubuntu box in the near future, I think it will be 
> a great learning experience. Again I would like to thank all for your 
> help and wish you Happy Thanksgivings
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Ramon

Here is a perfect example of how and why noobs (like myself) run into 
trouble trying to ask for and then utilize help on the forums.  There is 
a red flag waving all over the place in Ramon's post immediately above. 
 It is the third or fourth time he has mentioned it but I have yet so 
see anyone offer a little friendly advice.  I am not familiar at all 
with FC9 so have been hesitant to offer my two cents.

Ramon, when you execute a command that starts an ongoing process from 
the command line (CLI), you do not get the use of your terminal back 
until you kill the process or it dies for some other reason.  You almost 
certainly were starting faxgetty as desired .... and then killing it 
when you closed the terminal.

I think you have to type something like "/usr/sbin/faxgetty &" to get 
the program to run in the background and give you your terminal back.

Anyway, glad to see to finally had some success last evening.

Best regards,
	Dennis


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