Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with faxgetty

["Roeland Knoben" <rknoben@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

I uninstalled v4.4.0 before installing 5.2.8. 4.4.0 was included as part
of the distro.
The 5.2.8 installation was problematic. Despite getting the rpm from the
opensuse repository for opensuse 11, there were problems. The user the
fax processes was running under was changed from 'fax' to 'uucp' which
caused problems with the ownership of some files. Some files were in
different places as well.

However, Siri helped me with the other problem (the starting of faxgetty
in inittab), so now I have all the modems running faxgetty.

I have added the other modems, and it looks like their status is getting
updated.

It looks like its all working. Now for the testing!

Thanks for your help.


Roeland Knoben
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Direct: +44 (0) 1793 835 948 Mobile: 07843 038774
Email: rknoben@xxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 11 March 2009 05:54
To: Roeland Knoben
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with faxgetty

Roeland Knoben wrote:
> I have Hylafax 5.2.8 running on an opensuse 11.0 server. I did have 
> v4.4.0 running on the server, but decided to upgrade after problems 
> (faxes getting stuck in the send queue). I had to bodge the 5.2.8 
> installation (installed using a rpm) to get it to run (mainly 
> permissions & ownership issues).

So did you uninstall 4.4.0 before installing 5.2.8?  Was your 4.4.0
installation done via RPM as well?

> I have managed to send faxes using the new version (don't need to 
> receive), but I have 2 problems:
>  
> 1. I don't know whether faxq is using faxgetty for modem status, etc. 
> faxgetty is running, however during the sending of a fax, the fax 
> status is not updated i.e. it always says 'Running and idle'.
> 2. I have added a second modem (and will add 3 more soon as I've got 
> these issues sorted), put an additional line in inittab to start 
> faxgetty on the 2nd modem, however, this instance of faxgetty does not

> start. faxstat brings up both modems' status however.

Sounds like the installation was problematic.

> My questions are:
> 1. How can I find out whether faxq is using faxgetty for modem status?

> If it is not, how can I get faxq to use faxgetty?
> 2. How can I get faxgetty to start on the 2nd modem? I presume it may 
> be file permissions and/or ownership issues, but I'm unsure which 
> files I need to alter.

1. faxq and faxgetty should "just work" together.  There shouldn't be
anything for you to do to get it working.

2. How are you starting the first faxgetty?  How are you trying to start
the second?

Thanks,

Lee.

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