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

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

Dennis M. Linton 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...
> >
> > HeChanging 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.
>
> I fully agree, Aidan except that figuring out those requirements was 
> were the problem lay.  However, I have found that expert assistance 
> through hylafax-users is elusive at best.  Like you, it seems to me 
> that there has to be FC9 users monitoring the list that could have 
> offered Ramon clear, concise and timely assistance.  Quite frankly 
> some of the exchanges that did occur can only be described as 
> amateurish... but then most of those involved are, in fact, amateurs.
>
> The whole faxgetty running/not running circus seems perfectly silly in 
> retrospect.
>
> I figured that if Ramon were running an OS I was familiar with, I 
> would at least be able to help him out a little more.  It's 
> interesting that within minutes of my suggesting the change of OS, 
> Ramon had his fax system working.
>
>
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Greetings to All,

Some times the road to freedom is long and arduous, along the way you 
meet many kind strangers and they enrich you life. I must again give my 
thanks to all you for your contributions. I can guarantee you that it 
will not be wasted and I hope to call on you in the near future. One 
thing though, do not bake pumping pie before Thanksgiving and
expected to remain uneaten.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Ramon


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