Hylafax

[Adam Winebaugh]

My apoligies first of all to everyone for bothering you. I am an HP-UX SA and jkust had a Red HAT Linux server running hylafax dropped in my lap. I am trying to turn off the hylafax notifications, so that it stops sending the usage reports to me and everyone else? I am not familiar with either hylafax or Linux. HELP!

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

I'm not familiar with RedHat's Hylafax setup specifically, but I've used Hylafax on Linux in the past.

There might be some control variables in /etc/sysconfig/hylafax or some similar file: /etc/sysconfig in RedHat Linux works about the same as /etc/rc.config.d in HP-UX.

Those reports are probably generated by cron jobs: check the sender address. If the "crontab -u -l" reveals nothing, see /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly for RedHat-package-specific reporting scripts. The cron daemon runs all the scripts it finds in these directories.

The report delivery may be arranged using email aliases: examine /etc/mail/aliases or /etc/aliases (depends on RedHat version). If you change the aliases file, remember to run "newaliases" after making the changes.

MK

[Adam Winebaugh]

Matti,
Thank you the cron.daily is where the report was being generated and I removed the cron entry. Thanks a bunch. I appreciate it!

[Adam Winebaugh]

Thanks again Matti