Re: hylafax on CentOS 7

You'd probably want to use 'audit2allow' in order to create a custom 
SElinux policy.  This is explained here:

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux#head-faa96b3fdd922004cdb988c1989e56191c257c01

Thanks,

Lee.


On 11/17/2017 05:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Last one 😊The problem is SELinux.  If I set the mode to Permissive, 
> everything works.  I know, wrong thread, but anyone know how to turn 
> it off just for faxgetty?
>
> *From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2017 9:07 AM
> *To:* 'Lee Howard' <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: [hylafax-users] hylafax on CentOS 7
>
> I’m sorry for the bother. I think I’ve found the problem although I 
> don’t know the solution.
>
> I also have avantfax installed and I can send faxes from avantfax, I 
> can see faxgetty running and the modem resets fine (although too 
> slowly I think?)
>
> However when I used the command line “sendfax -n -d 111.111.1111 
> /etc/hosts, the faxgetty went away and faxstat responded with “ready 
> and idle”. No fax went out. I then tried sending from avantfax and 
> faxgetty “came on” and the modem was reset properly. Fax went out.
>
> So the problem is faxgetty and running from cmd? Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> *From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 17, 2017 6:22 AM
> *To:* 'Lee Howard' <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> *Cc:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* RE: [hylafax-users] hylafax on CentOS 7
>
> Thank you. Config file did not make a difference and here is the 
> output of probemodem. Also realized that faxgetty is not starting.
>
> Also tried Hylafax+ -
>
> # systemctl status hylafax-faxgetty@ttyUSB0 -l > faxgetty.txt
>
> # cat faxgetty.txt
>
> ● [email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]> - faxgetty on /dev/ttyUSB0
>
>    Loaded: loaded 
> (/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] 
> <mailto:/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]>; 
> enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
>
>    Active: activating (auto-restart) since Fri 2017-11-17 06:03:47 
> EST; 17s ago
>
>      Docs: man:faxgetty(8)
>
>   Process: 6415 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyUSB0 (code=exited, 
> status=255)
>
> Main PID: 6415 (code=exited, status=255)
>
> # ps ax | grep fax
>
>   761 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/hfaxd -d -i hylafax
>
>   765 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/faxq -D
>
> 6619 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto fax
>
> *From:*Lee Howard [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:37 PM
> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Cc:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [hylafax-users] hylafax on CentOS 7
>
> On 11/16/2017 10:29 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     I have installed hylafax numerous times and I can’t get it to work
>     due to a wedge modem. Basically I can send one fax and then wedged
>     forever.
>
>     I installed the following:
>
>     hylafax-server-6.0.6-1rhel7.x86_64.rpm
>
>     hylafax-client-6.0.6-1rhel7.x86_64.rpm
>
>     Running centos 7 with 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
>
>     Modem is USR 5686G
>
>     I’ve seen mention of hylafax+…Is that what I need. Help and TIA.
>
>     Modem ttyUSB0 (+1.718.xxx.xxxx): Waiting for modem to come ready
>
>
> The differences between what you're using and HylaFAX+ will probably 
> not resolve your problem directly.
>
> Chances are that your USR modem is exhibiting some problem due to a 
> misconfiguration.  USR modems are a bit quirky and can require unique 
> configurations.
>
> The 5686G model number seems to be a new one for us, and maybe you 
> ended up with a bad modem config file.  Probably what you want is 
> something close to this:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/HEAD/tree/trunk/config/usr-xon
>
> However, if that doesn't work for you please post the output of 
> 'probemodem' against your modem.
>
> If you really want to try HylaFAX+ then you can get it from EPEL:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> After EPEL is enabled then you'd 'yum install hylafax+'.
>
> But, again, I don't think that you should look to that as a resolution 
> for the problem you're having.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee.
>