Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23578
faxspool bug in mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.6.x
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:59 EDT
The faxspool script produces this error: Unknown device: faxg3 -r204x196 This is because of the way "$device" is quoted within the 'gs' commands inside the script. This patch illustrates one solution to the problem: --- /usr/bin/faxspool Thu Sep 7 15:37:09 2000 +++ /home/tom/bin/faxspool.sh Mon Jan 8 10:50:35 2001 @@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ # these are the drivers used in Ghostscript - choose dfaxhig/low or faxg3 #GS_DRIVER_HI="-sDEVICE=dfaxhigh" #GS_DRIVER_LO="-sDEVICE=dfaxlow" -GS_DRIVER_HI="-sDEVICE=faxg3 -r204x196" -GS_DRIVER_LO="-sDEVICE=faxg3 -r204x98" +GS_DRIVER="-sDEVICE=faxg3" +GS_RES_HI="-r204x196" +GS_RES_LO="-r204x98" # # program that will generate fax coverpage (see "man coverpg") @@ -234,11 +235,12 @@ # fs_cvt_ps() { - driver="$GS_DRIVER_HI" - test X$3 = X-n && driver="$GS_DRIVER_LO" + driver="$GS_DRIVER" + resolution="$GS_RES_HI" + test X$3 = X-n && resolution="$GS_RES_LO" cat "$1" | - gs $driver -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER - + gs $driver $resolution -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER - } @@ -251,10 +253,11 @@ ##### # via Ghostscript: - driver="$GS_DRIVER_HI" - test X$3 = X-n && driver="$GS_DRIVER_LO" + driver="$GS_DRIVER" + resolution="$GS_RES_HI" + test X$3 = X-n && resolution="$GS_RES_LO" - gs "$driver" -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE \ + gs "$driver" $resolution -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE \ -- gslp.ps -fCourier-Bold10 -B "$1" ##### @@ -290,18 +293,19 @@ # fs_cvt_dvi() { + driver="$GS_DRIVER" if [ X"$3" = X-n ] then - driver="$GS_DRIVER_LO" ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxlo" + resolution="$GS_RES_LO" ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxlo" else - driver="$GS_DRIVER_HI" ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxhigh" + resolution="$GS_RES_HI" ; dvipscfg="-P dfaxhigh" fi # if you do not have the dfaxlo(w)/dfaxhigh dvips modes configured, # remove "$dvipscfg" from the dvips command line below [or configure them!] dvips "$dvipscfg" "$1" -o \ - !"gs "$driver" -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -" + !"gs "$driver" $resolution -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -" # for those that only have the old "dvialw": # @@ -324,12 +328,13 @@ # fs_cvt_pdf() { - driver="$GS_DRIVER_HI" - test X"$3" = X-n && driver="$GS_DRIVER_LO" + driver="$GS_DRIVER" + resolution="$GS_RES_HI" + test X"$3" = X-n && resolution="$GS_RES_LO" cat "$1" | acroread -toPostScript | - gs "$driver" -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER - + gs "$driver" $resolution -sOutputFile="$2"%03d -dNOPAUSE -q -dSAFER - }
I'm not sure who did the quoting in the RedHat package ("gs $driver"), but it's the cause of the error, not the upstream source. The upstream source does NOT quote $driver when passing it to ghostscript, and that's the way it has to be. RedHat: we have discussed this in the past. Please do not introduce "fixes" that break functionality (and do not improve *anything*). Also, 1.1.22 is pretty old. An upgrade to 1.1.23 or 1.1.24 would be a reasonable thing to do. What about issueing an upgrade to the mgetty package in 7.0 that's still severely broken (concerning logging and seemingly faxspool as well)?
1.1.25 errata packages which fix this will be going out shortly.