Newbie setup issues - Hylafax 6.0.6.tar.gz on Fedora 17

[Gary Stainburn]

This is my first attempt at installing Hylafax. I have managed to install 
6.0.6 from the tarball onto a brand new F17 system.

I am wanting to use this as an automated fax receive and forward system so I 
haven't looked at the sending side of the system yet.

I'm also new to systemd having being used to old init based systems.  So far I 
have two problems.

1) Through googling I have managed to get faxgetty running and can receive 
faxes if I first start the system by issuing the command

systemctl start faxgetty-ttyS0.service

However, if I reboot the services doesn't start automatically. The systemd 
config file I've copied from the net and changed appropriately is:

[root@stan2 ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/faxgetty-ttyS0.service 
Unit]                                                                                                   
Description=FaxGetty Start Modem ttyS0

[Service]                                                                                               
Type=simple                                                                                             
User=root                                                                                               
Group=root                                                                                              
Restart=always                                                                                          
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0                                                           
RestartSec=30

[Install]                                                                                               
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[root@stan2 ~]# ll /etc/systemd/system/default.target                                                   
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Oct 29 
16:07 /etc/systemd/system/default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target                                                                                             
[root@stan2 ~]#

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get it to run on startup please.

2) received TIF image is squashed vertically

The resulting TIF file looks correct except that it is squashed vertically, to 
about half the height it should be.  I have googled this and have found a 
number of results where it says the problem is down to flow control and give 
the resulting log entries.  However I do not have any errors in the log file.

Oct 30 09:54:05 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION  
DEVICE '/dev/ttyS0'
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX [phone]): from 01132792564, 
page 1 in 0:00:37, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 1-D MH, 14400 bit/s
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX [phone]): 
recvq/fax[phone].tif from 01132792564, route to <unspecified>, 1 pages in 
0:00:42
Oct 30 09:54:47 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: RECV FAX: 
bin/faxrcvd "recvq/fax[phone].tif" "ttyS0" "000000004" ""
Oct 30 09:55:00 stan2 FaxGetty[1108]: MODEM USR U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT Rev. 
11.16.63/Configuration Profile...

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Cheers

Gary

[Patrick Lists]

On 10/30/2012 12:06 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
[snip]
> Through googling I have managed to get faxgetty running and can receive
>
> faxes if I first start the system by issuing the command
>
> systemctl start faxgetty-ttyS0.service
>
> However, if I reboot the services doesn't start automatically. The systemd
> config file I've copied from the net and changed appropriately is:

[snip]
> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get it to run on startup please.

Have you checked the systemctl manpage? Is it maybe something like this:

# systemctl enable faxgetty-ttyS0.service

Regards,
Patrick

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 30 October 2012 12:02:51 Patrick Lists wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 12:06 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get it to run on startup please.
>
> Have you checked the systemctl manpage? Is it maybe something like this:
>
> # systemctl enable faxgetty-ttyS0.service
>
> Regards,
> Patrick

I had done this Patrick but it didn't work. However, I did eventually trace it 
down to a typing error in the config file.

BTW. Is the hylafgax-users list still going. I did try there first but after 
subscribing and posting nothing has come through. Checking the archives 
doesn't seem to have anything in for this year.

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.10.2012 15:41, schrieb Gary Stainburn:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2012 12:02:51 Patrick Lists wrote:
> > On 10/30/2012 12:06 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get it to run on startup please.
> >
> > Have you checked the systemctl manpage? Is it maybe something like this:
> >
> > # systemctl enable faxgetty-ttyS0.service
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrick
>
> I had done this Patrick but it didn't work. However, I did eventually trace it 
> down to a typing error in the config file.
>
> BTW. Is the hylafgax-users list still going. I did try there first but after 
> subscribing and posting nothing has come through. Checking the archives 
> doesn't seem to have anything in for this year

Hylafax 6 is a dumb fork

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hylafax/files/
they are providing a src.rpm which can be rebuilt with "rpmbuild --rebuild file.src.rpm"

[root@asterisk:~]$ rpm -qa | grep hylafax
hylafax-5.5.1-1.fc17.20121016.rh.x86_64

works like a charme with self-created system-units below
and self-packaged iaxmodem on F17 since weeks
____________________________________________

[root@asterisk:/etc/systemd/system]$ cat hylafax.service
[Unit]
Description=Hylafax
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

ExecStartPre=/bin/systemctl start faxq.service
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax
ExecStartPost=/bin/systemctl start iaxmodem.service
ExecStartPost=/bin/systemctl start faxgetty.service

ExecStopPost=/bin/systemctl stop iaxmodem.service
ExecStopPost=/bin/systemctl stop faxgetty.service
ExecStopPost=/bin/systemctl stop faxq.service

Restart=always
RestartSec=2
TimeoutSec=2

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
____________________________________________

[root@asterisk:/etc/systemd/system]$ cat faxgetty.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX faxgetty

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
TimeoutSec=2
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyIAX0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
____________________________________________

[root@asterisk:/etc/systemd/system]$ cat iaxmodem.service
[Unit]
Description=iaxmodem
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/iaxmodem
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
TimeoutSec=2

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
____________________________________________

[root@asterisk:/etc/systemd/system]$ cat faxq.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX queue manager
After=syslog.target network.target
Before=hylafax.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/faxq
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
TimeoutSec=2

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/30/2012 07:47 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Hylafax 6 is a dumb fork

I can't say you're wrong, because I don't know anything about the 
project.  Why do you think this fork is dumb?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.10.2012 20:21, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 10/30/2012 07:47 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > Hylafax 6 is a dumb fork
>
> I can't say you're wrong, because I don't know anything about the project.  
> Why do you think this fork is dumb?

because it does not really differ and upstream is virtually
dead compared with the original project - fork for the sake
of a fork

[Gary Stainburn]

So far so good. I've managed top fix both of my problems but now have another.

I'm trying to route the incoming faces using caller ID and dialed in digits 
but none of this information is coming through.

I'm using a USR modem if that helps.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 11:06 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> This is my first attempt at installing Hylafax. I have managed to install 
> 6.0.6 from the tarball onto a brand new F17 system.
>
> I am wanting to use this as an automated fax receive and forward system so I 
> haven't looked at the sending side of the system yet.
>
> I'm also new to systemd having being used to old init based systems.  So far I 
> have two problems.
> Through googling I have managed to get faxgetty running and can receive
>
> faxes if I first start the system by issuing the command
>
> systemctl start faxgetty-ttyS0.service
>
> However, if I reboot the services doesn't start automatically. The systemd 
> config file I've copied from the net and changed appropriately is:

Did you enable it before you started it:
systemctl enable faxgetty-ttyS0.service
>