AvantFAX

I have Slackware 12 running as my HYlafax server and I can send and receive faxes with no problems. The problem lies with Avantfax. My problem seems to be a common one which I have searched in these forms. It seems that Avantfax changed their php scripts somewhat in the latest version as of now (V 2.25)

I have installed all of the dependencies required for Avantafx and all works great except that I cannot view any faxes or view any pdf faxes as well. I have traced the problem down to the PECL FileInfo module.
Since I could not compile this from pear or PECL it would always give a configure error even though I have all the dependencies met I had no choice to compile from source. It installed with no problems using standard make and make install, version 1.04 so I thought that all was good. It seems that with fileinfo installed and the module extension enabled in php.ini as (extension=fileinfo.so) the apache server would be very slow to respond to any of the avantfax pages. If I would comment out extension=fileinfo.so in php.ini and restart the apache server all would be well as in responsive speed in apache but I could not preview any faxes. Now the funny thing is if I would enable the module in php.ini and restart the server I sill could not see any preview faxes and the pdf function would just hang and the server would be unresponsive. So I thought it was an issue with Fileinfo and tried to downgrade to 1.0.3 but that version would give me a make error.

So now I'm stuck and have no way to fix this. I have tried all suggestions from reading the forum but all the suggestions apply to older versions of Avantfax to use FILE_INFO=true setting which was redone in version V 2.25 that automatically checks to see if it's installed which it is installed.


Any suggestions cause I have run out of ideas how to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

Try this:
ln -s /etc/file/magic.mime /etc/magic.mime

I already had the symbolic link setup

root@LTSP-12:/etc# ln -s /etc/file/magic.mime /etc/magic.mime
ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/magic.mime': File exists
root@LTSP-12:/etc#

Both magic and magic.mime have their symbolic links pointed to /etc/file

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-08-11 21:48 magic -> file/magic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-08-11 21:50 magic.mime -> file/magic.mime


Any other suggestions

Has anybody gotten Avantfax to work with Slackware 12 ?

I'm still having same issues and nothing seems to fix it.

i found the bug in slackware
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=8703&edit=2

this should help

As I did
1) Prepare the system and upgrade to "current" with all necessary for Avantfax (slackpkg is good stuff). Be assured, that following packages are installed: lcms, libXext, libXt, libXtst, libSM, libICE.
2) Install hylafax-4.4.4 from source.
3) Install Avantfax-3.0.9
4) #pear install Mail Net_SMTP Mail_mime MDB2_driver_mysql
5) Download and install fileinfo-1.0.4 from source.
# mkdir /tmp/fileinfo && cd /tmp/fileinfo && wget http://pecl.php.net/get/Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz
# tar zxvf Fileinfo-1.0.4.tgz && cd Fileinfo-1.0.4
# phpiz && make && cp modules/fileinfo.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/
6) Add extension=fileinfo.so in /etc/httpd/php.ini and restart apache.
7) #chmod -R 755 /var/www/htdocs/avantfax/faxes /var/www/htdocs/avantfax/tmp
8) #cd var/www/htdocs/avantfax/faxes && find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

All work is fine. No slow respond from any pages of avantfax.

Packages on my Slackware box: php-5.2.5-i486-1, mysql-5.0.51a-i486-1, httpd-2.2.4-i486-6, imagemagick-6.3.7_10-i486-1, ghostscript-8.62-i486-2, libtiff-3.8.2-i486-3, netpbm-10.35.22-i486-1, libungif-4.1.4-i486-4, expect-5.43.0-i486-2, lcms-1.16-i486-1, libXext-1.0.4-i486-1, libXt-1.0.5-i486-1, libXtst-1.0.3-i486-1, libSM-1.0.3-i486-1, libICE-1.0.4-i486-1