Re: Fax queuer stopped sending out faxes on BSD/OS

[Mike Pistone <pistone@eurekanet.com>]

I have had this happen to me before also.

I re-added the modem (faxaddmodem command) and it has worked fine since.

Try that.  I don't know why.... but it works for me.

Mike

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Mike Pistone 				pistone@eurekanet.com
Systems Administrator			      ph 614.593.5052     
Eureka Networks, Ltd. 			      fx 614.594-3632			   

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Vivek Khera wrote:

> Yesterday I came in and my fax server machine was locked up due to some
> process running out of memory (haven't figured that one out yet) so I rebooted
> it.  Now anything sent to HylaFAX just gets queued up.  I've since power
> cycled and rebooted, even restored all the HylaFAX programs and configuration
> from a tape made two weeks ago.
> 
> My configuration is this: BSD/OS 2.0.1 with 20Mb RAM.  I'm running HylaFAX
> 3.0p1.  The queuer reports this to the log when it starts:
> 
>  HylaFAX (tm) Version 3.0pl1113
> 
> and my current fax queue looks like this:
> 
> [fax@zax]# faxstat -a
> Server on faxmachine:FIFO for all modems: Running.
> Server on faxmachine:tty05 for +1.301.548.4366: Running and idle.
> Server on faxmachine:tty06 for +1.301.548.4367: Running and idle.
> 
> Job  Modem Destination     Time-To-Send     Sender         Status
> 2245 any   18002726505                      System Adminis Queued and waiting
> 2242 any   12148550219                      cbd            Queued and waiting
> 2244 any   14122882407                      cbd            Queued and waiting
> 2243 any   7032568618                       cbd            Queued and waiting
> 2229 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
> 2234 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
> 2233 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
> 2241 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
> 2232 any   18002726505     12:49 1997/01/30 System Adminis Queued and waiting
> 
> and has been sort of stuck like this for a mighty long time now.
> 
> I manually deleted some jobs since running faxrm failed to physically delete
> the files.  Running faxrm looks like this:
> 
> [uucp@zax]# faxrm 2232
> Job 2232 removed.
> 
> but faxstat shows the job still there.  However, faxalter does seem to do
> something.  I ran "faxalter -p 2232" at 12:49 as evidenced by the time on the
> job above.
> 
> This had been working great for sending out dialy faxes for the last 6 months,
> and text pages for over a year.  Now I'm silenced...
> 
> What does work is a data dialin.  That gets logged and handled properly by the
> faxgetty process.  Also, everything else on that machine works: the web proxy,
> IP routing/filtering, etc.
> 
> I've destroyed and re-created the FIFO files.  I don't see any lock files.
> I've power-cycled the modems.  I've restored the files from disk.
> 
> Any ideas on what else I might try to make the faxes go out?  I'm desperate!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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