flexfax: reset prob.. please help.

[Ludovic Marcotte <ludovic@Sophos.ca>]

Hi,
	Sorry about asking the same question two time.. but now I've
attached a log.

Look at the 3 last lines.. Those 3 lines have been written more than 150
000 times.. creating a huge 30MB file. I've stopped that manually by
kill -HUP'ing faxgetty. I'm using an USR Sportster 33,6 modem (internal)
configured with the usr-rts file in the ../fax/config directory. It did
that 2 times in 2 days.

What's causing that? How can I prevent that to happen again?

Thanks a lot in advance,
			Ludovic
Jul 23 14:23:17.55: [  343]: SESSION BEGIN 00000165 15146970343
Jul 23 14:23:17.55: [  343]: <-- [22:AT+FCLASS=1&H1&I0&R2A\r]
Jul 23 14:23:22.83: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:22.83: [  343]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION
Jul 23 14:23:22.83: [  343]: RECV FAX: begin
Jul 23 14:23:22.84: [  343]: <-- data [23]
Jul 23 14:23:22.84: [  343]: <-- data [2]
Jul 23 14:23:22.85: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:22.85: [  343]: <-- data [10]
Jul 23 14:23:22.85: [  343]: <-- data [2]
Jul 23 14:23:24.82: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:24.82: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:23:27.92: [  343]: --> [0:]
Jul 23 14:23:27.92: [  343]: MODEM <Empty line>
Jul 23 14:23:27.92: [  343]: <-- data [1]
Jul 23 14:23:27.93: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:27.93: [  343]: DELAY 1500 ms
Jul 23 14:23:29.44: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FTH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:23:29.47: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:29.47: [  343]: <-- data [23]
Jul 23 14:23:29.47: [  343]: <-- data [2]
Jul 23 14:23:29.48: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:29.48: [  343]: <-- data [10]
Jul 23 14:23:29.48: [  343]: <-- data [2]
Jul 23 14:23:31.55: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:31.55: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:23:32.45: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:33.89: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:33.89: [  343]: REMOTE TSI "5855628"
Jul 23 14:23:33.89: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:23:33.90: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: REMOTE wants 9600 bit/s
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: REMOTE wants page width 1728 pixels in 215 mm
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: REMOTE wants unlimited page length 
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: REMOTE wants 3.85 line/mm
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: REMOTE wants 1-D MR
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: RECV training at v.29 9600 bit/s
Jul 23 14:23:34.18: [  343]: <-- [10:AT+FRM=96\r]
Jul 23 14:23:34.55: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:36.18: [  343]: RECV: TCF 1953 bytes, 4% non-zero, 1862 zero-run
Jul 23 14:23:36.18: [  343]: --> [10:NO CARRIER]
Jul 23 14:23:36.18: [  343]: DELAY 75 ms
Jul 23 14:23:36.27: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FTH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:23:36.46: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:36.46: [  343]: <-- data [3]
Jul 23 14:23:36.46: [  343]: <-- data [2]
Jul 23 14:23:37.64: [  343]: --> [2:OK]
Jul 23 14:23:37.64: [  343]: TRAINING succeeded
Jul 23 14:23:37.64: [  343]: <-- [10:AT+FRM=96\r]
Jul 23 14:23:38.58: [  343]: --> [7:CONNECT]
Jul 23 14:23:38.58: [  343]: RECV: begin page
Jul 23 14:23:53.66: [  343]: RECV: 565 total lines, 0 bad lines, 0 consecutive bad lines
Jul 23 14:23:53.67: [  343]: RECV: end page
Jul 23 14:23:53.67: [  343]: --> [10:NO CARRIER]
Jul 23 14:23:53.67: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:24:11.65: [  343]: --> [10:NO CARRIER]
Jul 23 14:24:11.65: [  343]: MODEM No carrier
Jul 23 14:24:11.65: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:24:11.66: [  343]: --> [10:NO CARRIER]
Jul 23 14:24:17.17: [  343]: MODEM No carrier
Jul 23 14:24:17.72: [  343]: <-- [9:AT+FRH=3\r]
Jul 23 14:24:17.73: [  343]: --> [10:NO CARRIER]
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:12:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>
X-Sender: raoul@earmuff
To: Ludovic Marcotte <ludovic@Sophos.ca>
Cc: flexfax@sgi.com
Subject: Re: flexfax: reset prob.. please help.
Sender: owner-flexfax@celestial.com

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Ludovic Marcotte wrote:

> 	Sorry about asking the same question two time.. but now I've
> attached a log.
> 
> Look at the 3 last lines.. Those 3 lines have been written more than 150
> 000 times.. creating a huge 30MB file. I've stopped that manually by
> kill -HUP'ing faxgetty. I'm using an USR Sportster 33,6 modem (internal)
> configured with the usr-rts file in the ../fax/config directory. It did
> that 2 times in 2 days.

This may be related to the flow control problem of the USR Sportster:
certain versions have a serious wedging problem that USR doesn't like
to talk about. This is why certain models of the 33.6 Sportster are
sold so cheap, and most people don't rely on their modems enough to
tickle the bug a lot and chalk it up to the Windows system.

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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