From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 16:53:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA14203 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA14198 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA26122; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:51:29 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199607312351.QAA26122@MediaCity.com> Subject: Re: Hylafax -- Help! To: crs@swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607312243.QAA25218@kitsune.swcp.com> from Charlie Sorsby at "Jul 31, 96 04:43:10 pm" Reply-To: brian@MediaCity.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Charlie Sorsby wrote: > What must I do to set up the hylafax suite on FreeBSD? The man > pages speak of a "server" but nowhere (that I've been able to find) > does it say where this server may be found or how to set up the > configuration files or .... I supposed it depends on whether you have a port or a package or simply the source. Assuming you installed the executables via a package, or did a make install via a port or the source, you simply run the program faxaddmodem It will do all the configuration for you. > Oh--I'm not committed to hylafax. If there's something better or > easier to set up in the packages or ports, I'm open to suggestion. > I'd just like to be able to use troff (actually, groff) to create > PostScript files and then FAX to PostScript files as documents. I've used both hylafax and mgetty+sendfax. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com