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Setup of hylafax+ on openSUSE
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After installation of hylafax you need to run 
faxsetup
answer the questions and modify to your needs.

Run 
faxaddmodem
for each attached modem. It asks you for the device, leave out the /dev prefix; 
only enter eg. modem, ttyS0 or such things. 
Answer the other questions, important ones could be the ringtones, max pages, 
permissions on files or your the name that should be shown.

Setting up hylafax for systemd
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hylafax comes with three systemd service files. The first two are needed when 
you want to send faxes from your server:

hylafax-hfaxd.service - the hylafax server
hylafax-faxq.service - the fax scheduler

Enable systemd service for the daemons. They will start at boot time:

systemctl enable hylafax-hfaxd.service
systemctl enable hylafax-faxq.service

systemd-timers
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openSUSE has moved from cron to systemd-timers. By default we ship 2 timers, 
for cleaning the faxqueue and for usage statistics. You need to enable them in 
case you want to make use of these features:

systemctl enable hylafax-faxqclean.timer
systemctl enable hylafax-usage.timer

Receiving faxes
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In order to receive faxes as well, you need to run one faxgetty for each 
interface, e.g.:

systemctl start hylafax-faxgetty@ttyS0.service
systemctl start hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0.service

Starting them at boot time with:

systemctl enable hylafax-faxgetty@ttyS0.service
systemctl enable hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0.service

Send-only environment
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Many installations run hylafax just for sending faxes. To get this up and running, the command 
faxmodem
needs to run after hylafax is started.
In a systemd environment, it is easiest to add additional configuration for systemd.
Create a directory
/etc/systemd/system/hylafax-hfaxd.service.d
and copy the file sendonly.conf into this directory.
Check that the mentioned port (ttyS0 - Parameter is the device the modem is attached 
to) in this file matches your configuration and restart the service.

For general documentation on how to set up hylafax, please see
http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/install.php

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