FAX-2-PDF Failing - Could be another Elastix thing

General Help
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Stopped getting FAX-2-PDF but no error messages were logged in Asterisk - but copying and pasting the actual command that Asterisk was trying to execute from the CLI gives the following:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function gethostname() in /var/www/html/admin/modules/fax/bin/fax2mail.php on line 9

Here is what the code looked like:

$var[‘hostname’] = gethostname();

Here is what I changed it to:

$var[‘hostname’] = “asterisk.somebody.com”;

Don’t know why this was failing – here is the page that says the syntax is correct:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostname.php

Anyways, hard-coding the host-name in the script fixes the problem, so if anyone else runs into this problem, here is the workaround.

Greg

2

(PHP >= 5.3.0) from the Article - So an update to the FAX Module not requires PHP 5.3 - Man, I have to get rid of all of my Elastix boxes!

Greg

3

We highly recommend PHP 5.3 and their are lots of little things that will break without it.

4

It’s not just this problem - Elastix (Even the next-release Beta) is still based on CentOS 5 - and therefore PHP 5.1. We have given up on them and are in the process of moving the installed base to the FreePBX Distro - It’s just not worth the hassle anymore.

Greg