[ILUG] /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Paul Scollon wrote:

> FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing! The file
> /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present.  This
> probably means the machine has not been setup using the faxsetup(1M)
> command.  Read the documentation on setting up HylaFAX before you
> startup a server system.
> 
> root gets mailed with this error about 4 times a day, and it's getting
> annoying having to constantly go in and empty root's mailbox. I don't recall
> ever going near anything called HylaFAX. Any ideas anyone on ceasing this
> error being reported? We're running SuSE 7.0 Professional.


The error you mentioned comes from /usr/sbin/faxcron (it can also come from
the Hylafax startup script, but I presume you're not booting several times a
day :-) ) and it's telling you that Hylafax is not setup correctly.
Unsurprising, as you didn't set it up at all. Remove the line which calls
faxcron from your crontab.

SuSE 7.0 Professional seems fond of starting things without asking you. When
I installed it my modem wouldn't work - turned out that there were at least
two processes trying to use /dev/ttyS0, one of which was a Braille reader.

Apropos the Braille reader - apparently SuSE is the first distribution which
can actually be installed by a blind user.


You might also make sure that your system isn't trying to start Hylafax. To
check that out, do make sure you have START_HYLAFAX="no" (rather than "yes")
in /etc/rc.config. If you have to edit that, run /sbin/SuSEconfig (as
root) afterwards.



Regards,



Niall