VSIFax and HP-UX

[Fred Martin_1]

Any VSIFax users out there? There's a circular link in my install. Would like to know if this exists in other installs on HP-UX:

# cd /opt/vsifax3/lib/fxmacro
# ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x ...etc... vsimacro -> vsimacr
drwxrwxr-x ...etc... wp5
drwxrwxr-x ...etc... wp6

This is causing ingite to fail.

[Fred Martin_1]

Listing above got truncated sorry:

lrwxr-xr-x ...etc... vsimacro -> vsimacro

[Fred Martin_1]

The manual says vsimacro is part of an integration package for Word Perfect. I don't use WP and I'm tempted to remove the link, I'd rather have that broken than ignite I guess. Waiting for comment.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

You have the permissions so you can rebuild the link if necessary.

I think its pretty safe to delete and re-ignite.

Rarely does critical system information end up in the /opt folder.

Kind of interestng though where it came from. Perhaps there was a samba share there and someone stored docs on the box.

SEP

[Patrick Wallek]

I just checked one of my systems running VsiFax Gold and I do not have that vsimacro link anywhere.

I'd say try removing it and see if Vsifax still works.

[Bill Hassell]

That sounds like an old version of VSIFax. Blow it away. The VSIFax code is not too convoluted and should have no effect on the code. Most users never use macros although I did use a fairly extensive dialer helper for phone-challenged users. It would look at whatever digits the user supplied (or failed to supply) and figure out what was really desired (like adding 9, in front of a number, etc).

[Fred Martin_1]

We don't do anything fancy at all, we use it as a unix command-line fax server, simple stuff like

$ vfx -n 000-0000 filename

Add a cover sheet maybe. That's it, and that's why it's an old version.

I removed the link.

[Fred Martin_1]

Removed the link. Strongly suspect it's in error anyway as I can't think of a valid reason why it would point to itself.

This was discovered while trying to run the ignite make_tape_recovery program; it failed on this circular link.