Topic: HylaFax How to From start to Finish

[xjjk16x]

I been reading the forums and the posts on the internet. It seems HylaFax is a commercial grade faxing program. I want to do a How to: I was hoping that  people with HylaFAX/SME wisdom can contribute to this thread to provide a  walkthrough that someone can learn from as well as follow. It seems that something as powerful and popular as HylaFax should be, by now in it's fourth and counting version,  a bit more user friendly.  Some sites(ifax?) want to charge $495 to install HylaFax. Hopefully, Someone in the linux/giving spirit will contribute.

Is there an alternative?

What are the missing steps?

I undestand that   ttyS0 != ttys0 when running faxaddmodem.      

Do I need to create a faxMaster user account in SME before I install?
Do i need run to faxadduser or is faxmaster an acceptable user when printing from a client print to fax?

How do I configure the clients,( hylaprintmon,cypheus, etc) for printing to the hylafax server once it is setup?

Do I need to start hylafax in the cron daily? Is it there by default?

What maintence programs need to run daily?
How do I search/comprehend any log files for Hylafax?
If I mess up my install of HylaFax, and want to uninstall, how do I do that without formating and reinstalling Linux/SME?

I have seen the walkthroughs by chaloner and others... I followed them to a tee and could not get it to work.

To install I simply did:

wget ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary/linux/redhat/RPMS/i386/hylafax-4.2.5-1rhel4.i386.rpm
then
yum --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates localinstall hylafax-4.2.5-1rhel4.i386.rpm

Installed without a problem...


Some issues?

Add a group called faxmaster and add a user to that group in server-manager.  
what user?

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

Is this for SME 7? What does this command do?
# Make sure HylaFAX is restarted at boot
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S92hylafax

Why restart?
# Restart HylaFAX
/sbin/init q
/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax restart


modify /var/spool/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd to allow client access."
echo "Add the line ^.*@.*.\.yourdomainname\. to allow access from your domain."

I used Midnight commander in putty,(logged in as root), Say I wanted to allow the ip address range instead of domain? Why and how do these settings affect hylafax.

If someone has other questions please post and of hopefully some answers too.

[kruhm]

search for chaloner's posts. or visit his site: http://www.chaloner.ca/index.php
It may save you some time.

[CharlieBrady]

This message is inappropriate for this forum. Hylafax is not a feature of SMEServer. You should post to the Contribs forum instead.

[kruhm]

good call. Can we get an admin to move it?

[xjjk16x]

There has now been 67 page views over a span of 24 hours. I think it is important to SME. Also, the act of installing this contrib should be similar to many other installs  and would help in getting a better understanding on SME as a whole.  

I have also read Chaloner's site and I think vancees as well; However, there is many gaps and the walkthroughs do not go into the actual testing of functionality. If anyone can post that, in addition to, it would be welcome.

[kruhm]

Most likely their trying to see if the "receiving fax to individual email" is easily possible. Which it isn't.

[CharlieBrady]

There has now been 67 page views over a span of 24 hours. I think it is important to SME.

Sure, but not in this forum.