SOLVED Incredible Fax 11: Hourly Emails from cron

[marks]

new install of incrediblefax11 and cron emails you every hour with:

/etc/cron.hourly/hylafax+:
 
/etc/cron.hourly/hylafax+: line 3: /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+: No such file or directory

The configuration file is missing from the /etc/sysconfig directory.

my workaround was to create a "/etc/sysconfig/hylafax+" containing:

#
# Put additional command-line options for hfaxd here
#
HFAXD_OPTIONS="-i hylafax"
 
#
# Put additional command-line options for faxq here
#
FAXQ_OPTIONS=
 
#
# Put command-line options for faxqclean here
#
FAXQCLEAN_OPTIONS=
 
#
# Disable daily faxcron if not needed here
#
FAXCRON_RUN="yes"
 
#
# Put command-line options for faxcron here
#
FAXCRON_OPTIONS=

So far, no more emails from cron..

 

[mbellot]

Thanks for this, I was just about to post a new thread with exactly this problem but decided to search first.

 

[Hyksos]

Which I think is actually the reverse of the correct fix, it's the cron which needs correcting... hylafax/hylafax+
I'm not actually using FAX so I'm surfing... and if it works... maybe you don't care.

 

[mbellot]

Which I think is actually the reverse of the correct fix, it's the cron which needs correcting... hylafax/hylafax+
I'm not actually using FAX so I'm surfing... and if it works... maybe you don't care.

There is (was) no file /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+ or /etc/sysconfig/hylafax on my system, so changing the cron file would have left the problem...

 

[Hyksos]

You're right! I was influenced by another thread about hylafax/hylafax+ packages.
The one in the recent piaf repo is hylafax+ but a version which doesn't create /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+ it seem.
So the cron is fine with the + and calling the /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+ which is now created by hylafax+ >= 5.5.3-3, piaf repo has 5.5.3-1 for now.
They should all be installed by the package and reference each other correctly but some older version of the package did not include /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+

So you're good and it would mean the piaf repo would profit from the newest version that does include this config file correctly.

 

[darmock]

it is on the list hyksos. We are madly working on Piaf3 at the moment which will involve an updated repo which should have the latest rpm's in it.


Tom

 

[mbellot]

You're right! I was influenced by another thread about hylafax/hylafax+ packages.
The one in the recent piaf repo is hylafax+ but a version which doesn't create /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+ it seem.
So the cron is fine with the + and calling the /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+ which is now created by hylafax+ >= 5.5.3-3, piaf repo has 5.5.3-1 for now.
They should all be installed by the package and reference each other correctly but some older version of the package did not include /etc/sysconfig/hylafax+

So you're good and it would mean the piaf repo would profit from the newest version that does include this config file correctly.

Thanks for digging into it and confirming this was the correct fix.