Re: flexfax: getty hanging up line

[Steve Ingram <steve@supersource.com>]

I have tried ttyS1 as well with no success.  -h tells my getty not to
hangup the line (according to man page).  Is there somewhere I can find
out (it's not in the getty man page) what the exit status 0 means for
getty?

David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > control.  To then test the installation, I ran faxmodem to manually
> > assign cua1 as an available modem.  I was able to send a test postscript
> 
> cua1 will soon be removed from Linux.
> 
> > type of call (fax or data) each time.  The fax receive started to work
> > until encountering some phase B errors (not sure what all that is but am
> 
> Phase B is the phase in which the two fax machines negotiate the options
> and parameters to use.  Probably 50% of failures are in this phase, so
> Phase B error is of little diagnostic value with the underlying error.
> 
> > Nov 03 21:59:47.59 [ 9297]: GETTY: START "/sbin/getty -h ttyS1 19200",
> 
> What does -h do on the getty you are using?