Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1702 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 September 2009 03:00:37 pm Brian K. White wrote:
> Does this new hylafax have the -j option to sendfax  and the event
> trigger script ( /var/spool/hylafax/etc/FaxAccounting, intended for
> accounting but also proivides the perfect place to insert any kind of
> database or application integration you want) from HylaFAX+  ?

Brian,

        I'll have to ask Aidan at ifax. Currently, Avantfax does a great job 
using 
mysql as the backend for all the incoming and outgoing faxes along with 
automatically collecting the fax numbers and names via caller ID. The avantfax 
database structure looks like this:

mysql> show tables;
+--------------------+
| Tables_in_avantfax |
+--------------------+
| AddressBook        |
| AddressBookEmail   |
| AddressBookFAX     |
| BarcodeRoute       |
| DIDRoute           |
| DistroList         |
| DynConf            |
| FaxArchive         |
| FaxCategory        |
| Modems             |
| SysLog             |
| UserAccount        |
| UserPasswords      |
+--------------------+

        The full structure (describe of each table) can be viewed at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/apps/hylafax/avantfax/avantfax.mysql.structure.txt

> The problem with the 'official' hylafax is that the maintainers, ifax,
> sell db integration as a commercial enhancement, and so they are
> dismotivated to provide such features in hylafax for free. But hylafax+
> has them. I was maintaining hylafax+ myself for a while but I found that
> someone else is already maintaining a nice package in OBS and it's been
> working fine.

        That excellent. I haven't even run into this hylafax/hylafax+ issue 
yet, so 
I'll have to take a look to see what the issue is. Avantfax has suited all my 
needs quite well. The holy grail would be a connector between egroupware and 
avantfax allowing my existing egroupware addressbook list to be used natively 
without creating the avantfax table with a query

> And, our fax server, which receives and sends tons of faxes a day 24/7
> via a full T1 fax board installed right in the box as well as a varying
> number of regular modems on pots lines, and receiving outgoing fax jobs
> from 20 or so remote application servers, has been chugging just fine
> without a blip running hylafax+ for years, so,
> stability/performance/reliability are no concern that I can see.

        And I thought my 10-20 faxes a day was a busy server....

> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://aljex/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64
> /hylafax-5.2.9-5.1.x86_64.rpm which really comes from here:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=hylafax-plus&project=home:D
> ocB

        Thanks for the links. I'll check it out. Regardless of what openSuSE 
ultimately packages, there is a huge need to bring the hylafax packages up to 
date. The 4.4 packages are so old that the recommendation on the hylafax list 
for any problems is to updated to a newer package because of all the fixes 
that have been put in place since 4.4 was released. From earlier conversations 
with Phillip we know that the prior hylafax maintainer for openSuSE has been 
gone for some time, so the package is in need of work.

        Further, wherever the decision making lies in openSuSE about moving the 
spool 
directory from /var/spool/fax to /var/spool/hylafax, that decision needs to be 
made so that any future packager has direction for the basic package layout. 
Does anybody know who it is that will need to make that decision and how long 
it takes to get something like that done? 

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