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Re: Flexfax problem
>
> Please help.
>
> I'm uing Flexfax 4.0 pl1 on AIX 4.1.4. Sometimes modems lose connections
> with the server and I cant find a way to restart a modemconnection.
> I've tried killing the faxgetty process, removing lock files etc.
> Faxstat always says : Initializing modem, and then Waiting for modem to
> come ready.
> I've used rc.local to hack faxgetty into inittab, but it doesn't seems
> to work.
>
About every 3 months one of our 7 modems becomes wedged, usually after
we run out of paging space or do something really stupid. This is under
AIX 3.2.5, but there is nothing else short of a reboot that I have been
able to find that will get them going again.
I didn't throw this together, one of the guys I work with did, and there
is alot of redundant stuff in it, but our attitude around here is...., if
it doesn't hurt to hit it with a big hammer....
It appears the act of getting an AIX "getty" running on the port is what
does the trick.
Try this "HACK"
pdisable tty1 # won't accomplish anything
chdev -l tty1 -a login=disable # Not necessary but done anyway
sleep 2
/etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/tty1"
penable tty1 # probably unnecessary
sleep 5
pdisable tty1
sleep 2
chdev -l tty1 -a login=disable ; sleep 2
/etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1"
Good Luck,
> Thanks
>
> Ferenc Cserei
> NIS engineer
>
> the telinit file:
>
> # Hack to get faxgetty into inittab
> num_faxgetty=`ps -ef | grep faxgetty | wc -l`
> if [ $num_faxgetty -eq 1 ]; then
> /etc/chitab "tty0:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty0"
> /etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1"
> sleep 2 ; telinit q
> fi
>
>
> the inittab file:
>
> tty0:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty0
> tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1
>
>
--
Steve Williams, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Genie Computer Systems Inc.
steve@genie96.com