Topic: HylaFAX & SME7 - latest install and tarball

[chaloner]

The latest version of HylaFAX is up and running nicely on SME7 in a number of commercial installs. It is the simplest install to date...

I have it for download in my FTP area (ftp://chaloner.ca). Download to a temporary directory and extract with;

# tar -xvf *.tar

It is based on the most recent HylaFAX 4.3.0-2 version. First edit S85hylafax and modify your serial device if needed. Then review the install-notes file and run;

# sh install-part-1.sh
# faxsetup
# sh install-part-2.sh

Be sure to follow the final instructions shown in install-part-2.sh which are;

# signal-event post-upgrade
# signal-event reboot

And finally, add a user, pseudonym or group in the server-manager panel called "faxmaster". I prefer using a group and then including the users I want in the group...

Have fun,

Chaloner Hale

[psoren]

Hi Chal,

Just tried your script on my machine, it works well.

Do you have the Relayfax script that works with SME7 now? :-)

Per

[chaloner]

I have RelayFAX working. The major issue I had in getting it to go has been resolved. It use metamail to strip attachements from the email it receives and metamail does not seem to be available for this Redhat release.

The one I used to use on 6 and 6.5 does install (with errors) and does work, but it is not RIGHT.... but it does work... actually I use it all the time...

So that is where we are...

Chaloner Hale

and for all those that visited my site over the last few years and noticed my boy had been abducted, I did get him back 10 months ago, and I do have full custody...

[AaronG]

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a faxing solution to integrate with our application.

I only want basic faxing functionality for a network but something I can call programatically such as in a "Windows World"

Shell ("FaxApplication /documentname=doc.txt /phonenumber=999999999")

Is hlyafax suitable for this or is it overkill? Can anyone make a suggestion? I open to use either an Open source solution (such as an application running on SME) or to use a Windows application.

Ideally things such as keeping track of successful and unsuccesful faxes would be a good feature to have.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Regards
Aaron

[noidea]

I followed you instruction on how to install but I don't know how to get the program to fing my modem.  I have a PCI modem and I have tried to get hlyafax to inilize it by entering ttyS1 or ttyS2 but  it cannot find it what do I need to do ??????   Please help.

[wjhobbs]

...  I have a PCI modem and I have tried to get hlyafax to inilize it ...

Look carefully at the Hylafax site and discussions about supported fax modems.

Most PCI (internal) fax modems are so-called Winmodems and are not supported.

I strongly suggest that you get a standards compliant external fax modem.

John

[chaloner]

Yes, don't install this software without ensuring you have the right gear for it... If you want something that works, then either ask or do a bit of research...

Chaloner Hale

[chaloner]

You might try the following at the root prompt;

# setserial /dev/ttyS5
/dev/ttyS5, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xcc00, IRQ: 233

Try for devices ttyS0 through ttyS6 and see if you can spot your modem...

Also to see if it is recognixed;

# cat /proc/pci | more

I used to use an external USR V.Everything Courier modem. It worked well and I used the same for many clients for a long time... Do not use a Sportster for any reason...

I now use an internal PCI Multitech V.92 in class 1.0. Very impressive. It auto installs onto /dev/ttyS5 and is catagorized as a G3 fax modem...Very nice. It has yet to fail receiving a fax...

[jazbokes]

Is this the same model # MT5634ZPX-PCI-U  you are using ?

[noidea]

Thanks everyone for your help.  I just used a PCI card I had lying around so I have no idea what it is.  I think I will head down to the computer store and look for a multitech PCI or an external modem.

Can anyone suggest a good client to use with HylaFax?  My work place uses both Macs and PCs so I need something that will work for both.

Thanks again
Paul

[noidea]

Me again,  I have installed a new modem external and it seems to be working fine but I cannot connect to the server.  I have downloaded Frog Faxmail but it keeps comming up user and password required.  is this a Hylafax thing, a Frog faxmail thing?  Do I need to open port 4559? Do l need to enter a password?  I have done some search but as yet cannot find any answers.

Please help
Paul

[duncan]

Me again,  I have installed a new modem external and it seems to be working fine but I cannot connect to the server.  I have downloaded Frog Faxmail but it keeps comming up user and password required.  is this a Hylafax thing, a Frog faxmail thing?  Do I need to open port 4559? Do l need to enter a password?  I have done some search but as yet cannot find any answers.

Please help
Paul

man faxadduser

Ps - your web link is faulty.

[noidea]

Thanks :-D  That solved that problem but I have another and believe me I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't already searched.  I have received a fax but I cannot open it I keep getting a permissions error.  It must be server side as I have tried a couple of different programs.  Sorry to ask again but can anybody shed some light onto this one?

PS. I will have a look at my web info.

[mojo]

When running faxsetup I get the following error

Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a directory!

The directory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or this file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.


I have tried
yum --enablerepo=base install ghostscript-fonts
only to get message

Nothing to do

Thanks

[chaloner]

This thread is about HylaFAX for SME7. THis is what it works on. HylaFAX also works on every previous version of SME, but the tarball referenced is only for SME7.

It can be installed in under 5 minutes. If it is taking you longer then something else is wrong...

Chaloner Hale

[mojo]

Chaloner,
First I wish to thank you and the rest of the community for all your hard work and also being very helpful. I have learned much from you folks.

This thread is about HylaFAX for SME7. THis is what it works on. HylaFAX also works on every previous version of SME, but the tarball referenced is only for SME7.

It can be installed in under 5 minutes. If it is taking you longer then something else is wrong...

Chaloner Hale

I am installing your contrib on vanilla SME7 only updated via the server-manager link.
I am able to receive faxes fine. However, I have yet to install your relayfax contrib, wasn't going to continue unless the "Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a directory" is a non-issue.

Thanks Again

[chaloner]

Well it should work in minutes, with no errors or warnings. Was there previous versions or attempts of HylaFAX installed?

Email me at email@chaloner.ca and I can sort it out, surely in a few minutes...

Chaloner Hale

[chaloner]

Is this the same model # MT5634ZPX-PCI-U  you are using ?

Yes, but there are 2 flavors of it. The V.90 is nice but is not a G3 fax. The V.92 version is the big dog, the G3 version... looks the same...but it is not...

To have the G3 features you must be sure the one you get is the V.92 version...

[uomonet]

Hi all,
I'm trying to install hylafax on sme 7 but i have a few questions:

1- in your FTP I find these 3 files,
File: hylafax-4.3.0-2-SME7.tar
File: hylafaxSME7files.tar
File: hylafaxSME7rpms.tar
Do i have to download all 3? (I downloaded all 3!)

2- when I run:
# tar -xvf *.tar
I get an error:

tar: hylafaxSME7files.tar: Non trovato nell'archivio
tar: hylafaxSME7rpms.tar: Non trovato nell'archivio
tar: Uscita per errore ritardata dall'errore precedente

what's wrong?

[Amir Inbar]

I had problems whatching faxes using Frog Fax Mail - i used to get :

"Operation not permitted"

doing :

chmod 0666 /var/spool/hylafax/recvq/*

solved the problem.

[Jawor]

Does anyone can provide a link to the latest relayfax scripts that works with SME 7.0 Final btw I've searched chaloner site and ftp but have found only client install and no scripts

Jawor

[brick]

What external modems are you trying with hylafax?
In two installations I tried my US Robotics sportster, it detects the modem, gives me the ring sinal but it does not work.

Code: [Select]

Oct 23 00:41:30 server FaxGetty[4656]: MODEM U.S. ROBOTICS 33600 FAX V4.11.3 3362/

[Franco]

Brick,
I'm looking into trying Hylafax as well and noticed your post.
I found this list http://www.hylafax.org/content/Hardware_Compatibility_List that does not show many types of modems.  

[Franco]

I used to use an external USR V.Everything Courier modem. It worked well and I used the same for many clients for a long time... Do not use a Sportster for any reason...

From:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=33057.0

[Tib]

I have just installed hylafax on the test server and would like to know what people think is the best client software to use with hylafax or what setup is best for sending and recieving faxes.

I have downloaded .... Frogfaxmail ... relatfax and hyfax ... have not tested any as yet ... testing will start tomorrow.

Also I'm looking for documentation on how to setup incoming faxes to get e-mailed straight to the correct people ... is this possible.

Any help would be great.

Regards,

Tib

[Jáder]

Hi

I prefer WinPrintHylaFAX to send and receive in PDF format on e-mail.

Jáder

[mojo]

Can the relayfax for SME7 script be posted here?

[chris.tsui]

i try to install with sme7.0 but also get the same problem. do u have any idea?

When running faxsetup I get the following error

Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a directory!

The directory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or this file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.


I have tried
yum --enablerepo=base install ghostscript-fonts
only to get message

Nothing to do

Thanks

[altair40]

Hi!

chaloner's ftp seems down... anyone to tell me where i can download the file to install hylafax on my fresh sme 7.0?

Thx!

[duncan]

Erm - from hylafax.org

[yythoss]

A good HylaFAX-Client you can find at:

http://www.hylafax-client.de

yythoss

[psoren]

Hi!

chaloner's ftp seems down... anyone to tell me where i can download the file to install hylafax on my fresh sme 7.0?

Thx!

Put this in a scipt and run it:

#!/bin/sh


wget -c ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary/linux/redhat/RPMS/i386/hylafax-4.3.0-2rhel4.i386.rpm
yum -y localinstall hylafax*

mv /etc/cron.daily/hylafax /etc/cron.weekly/

faxsetup

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab
echo "fax:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0" > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/S85hylafax
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab
/sbin/init q

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S92hylafax

echo "FILETYPE=pdf;
SENDTO=FaxMaster;" > /etc/hylafax/etc/FaxDispatch

echo "RETURNFILETYPE=pdf;" > /etc/hylafax/etc/FaxNotify

ttyS0 for com1, ttyS1 for com2 and so on...

It does the same as Chaloners script. ( i think....) I use it myself.
There could be a never hylafax RPM, but you can just upgrade later or change the script to download the latest.

Per

[del]

Hi altair40,

I could email the chaloner .tar file to you? Let me know where to send it.

Del

[ericng]

Hi Del,

 I am looking for chaloner tar file, appreciate if you could email me at ericng@jpdatas.net


Thanks

[del]

Hi ericng,

Email sent Let me know if you have any problems.

Del

[cbacani]

Me again,  I have installed a new modem external and it seems to be working fine but I cannot connect to the server.  I have downloaded Frog Faxmail but it keeps comming up user and password required.  is this a Hylafax thing, a Frog faxmail thing?  Do I need to open port 4559? Do l need to enter a password?  I have done some search but as yet cannot find any answers.

Please help
Paul

Paul, What did you do to solve the "user and Pssword" issue? Iam having the same problem.

Thanks
Carl

[del]

Hi Carl,

I had the same problem but with Winprint HylaFax client and I added a user like this:

faxadduser -a adminpass -p userpass -u 100 username

You can see the full topic here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34558.0
Hope this helps.

Del

[cbacani]

Hi Carl,

I had the same problem but with Winprint HylaFax client and I added a user like this:

faxadduser -a adminpass -p userpass -u 100 username

You can see the full topic here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=34558.0
Hope this helps.

Del

Del,
Just upgraded to SME 7.1 and everything went to He++. Seems that the SME server software doesn't like what it is being told to do.

Warning: /sbin/mgetty does not exist or is not an executable program!

The file:

    /sbin/mgetty

does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
program resides in a different location and you do not want to
install a symbolic link for /sbin/mgetty that points to your program
then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.

tty
Warning: /sbin/vgetty does not exist or is not an executable program!

The file:

    /sbin/vgetty

does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
program resides in a different location and you do not want to
install a symbolic link for /sbin/vgetty that points to your program
then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.


Warning: /bin/egetty does not exist or is not an executable program!

The file:

    /bin/egetty

does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
program resides in a different location and you do not want to
install a symbolic link for /bin/egetty that points to your program
then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
THE FONTS ARE NOT THERE

Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a              directory!

The directory /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or this file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may
generate illegible facsimile from ASCII text.


Make /var/spool/hylafax/bin/ps2fax a link to /var/spool/hylafax/             bin/ps2fax.gs.


Make /var/spool/hylafax/bin/pdf2fax a link to /var/spool/hylafax             /bin/pdf2fax.gs.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Any ideas as to what changed?

Carl

[duncan]

You don`t need any of those programs to function. Just keep going thru the install process and you will be fine.

[cbacani]

You don`t need any of those programs to function. Just keep going thru the install process and you will be fine.

Duncan,

Thank you for the information. I am in the process of documenting all of the install process and have another question. Does anyone have a more complete install of this software on the SME server version 7.1? Not the Halyafax doc's but doc's that pertain only to the SME server version 7.1. I have looked but no luck?

I need specific details so I can also document my findings.

Thanks in advance

Carl

[cbacani]

Hi!

chaloner's ftp seems down... anyone to tell me where i can download the file to install hylafax on my fresh sme 7.0?

Thx!

Put this in a scipt and run it:

#!/bin/sh


wget -c ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary/linux/redhat/RPMS/i386/hylafax-4.3.0-2rhel4.i386.rpm
yum -y localinstall hylafax*

mv /etc/cron.daily/hylafax /etc/cron.weekly/

faxsetup

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab
echo "fax:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0" > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/S85hylafax
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab
/sbin/init q

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S92hylafax

echo "FILETYPE=pdf;
SENDTO=FaxMaster;" > /etc/hylafax/etc/FaxDispatch

echo "RETURNFILETYPE=pdf;" > /etc/hylafax/etc/FaxNotify

ttyS0 for com1, ttyS1 for com2 and so on...

It does the same as Chaloners script. ( i think....) I use it myself.
There could be a never hylafax RPM, but you can just upgrade later or change the script to download the latest.

Per

Please tell me how up setup the group and user, ibay for this.

[psoren]

Please tell me how up setup the group and user, ibay for this.

You need to set up a user or group called "faxmaster"
If you set up a user you can forward the mail/fax to another user.
If you set up a group, members of the group will recieve the mail/fax

You don't need an ibay.

Per

[sfleming]

hey has anyone had this problem,

i am able to send out faxes using my hylafax winprint ... faxes go out great np...

but it will not answer incoming calls.... i am using an external fax modem..

rockwell based chipset
v1456VQE-R
also known as an askey modem
any suggestions?

Thanks.

[cbacani]

hey has anyone had this problem,

i am able to send out faxes using my hylafax winprint ... faxes go out great np...

but it will not answer incoming calls.... i am using an external fax modem..

rockwell based chipset
v1456VQE-R
also known as an askey modem
any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hey,

Looks like an issue with the init string. Go to the Hylafax website and see what init string they recommend for a Rockwell chipset.. BTW Most of the problems 60% with Hylafax are from the Init String. When you ran the faxsetup what did you try? Get the information and rerun faxsetup and try from their. I had to run it 2 times before I stumbled upon the correct init string.

Carl