Re: Hylafax on FreeBSD 4.9

From: Scott (whoami_at_nobody.com)
Date: 02/28/04


Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:49:07 -0500

Hi again,

> On 2004-02-27, Scott <whoami@nobody.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I've got Hylafax running on FBSD 4.9 and am unable to get it to run
>>> consistently. I am unable to get it to send faxes automatically - I
>>> always have to issue the following command:
>>>
>>> faxmodem /dev/cuaa0
>>
>> Well, I have Hylafax on FreeBSD 4.9 and it works just great!.
>> In /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I have the following hylafax.sh:
>>
>> export LANG=fr_CA.ISO8859-1 # to get localized tagline date
>> /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax && echo -n ' hylafax'
>> /usr/local/sbin/faxq
>> /usr/local/sbin/faxmodem cuaa2
>>
>> -Scott
>
> Scott - presumably this is a modified startup script? Can you recall
> why you added the extra lines? In particular the 'faxmodem' command

I have installed HylaFax some times ago and I do not remember that there was
a script provided to start the daemons. The one above is from me and it
works fine. If it does not help you, you have to give us more details on
your problem is.

Bye for now,
-Scott



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