RE: flexfax: Disabling answer with faxgetty

[JOHN PRICE <john.price@adtran.com>]

Actually, that is not true.  It looks like using the faxconfig command
is all that is necessary to stop, start it from answering the phone.

Thanx to all for the help,
John


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Damian A Ivereigh [SMTP:damian@cisco.com]
>Sent:	Monday, January 04, 1999 7:51 PM
>To:	aidan@magma.ca
>Cc:	JOHN PRICE; flexfax@sgi.com
>Subject:	Re: flexfax: Disabling answer with faxgetty
>
>You may also have to kill faxgetty (inittab will restart it) after you make
>the change.
>
>Damian
>
>Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
>> 
>> FAXCONFIG(8C)                                       FAXCONFIG(8C)
>> 
>> NAME
>>        faxconfig   -  dynamically  change  HylaFAX  configuration
>>        parameters
>> 
>> SYNOPSIS
>>        /usr/local/sbin/faxconfig [ -q queue-dir ] [ -m modem ]  [
>>        parameter value  ... ]
>> 
>> and the config option would be "RingsBeforeAnswer"
>> 
>> I've never tried this combination before, but I would suspect it to
>> work.  Just use a cronjob to set RingsBeforeAnswer to 0 (means never
>> answer) or 1 (or something else for more rings),
>> 
>> a.
>> 
>> On 31 Dec, JOHN PRICE wrote:
>> > Is there a way to keep faxgetty from answering the phone?  I want it to
>> > only answer after hours.
>> >
>> > Using mgetty, I just wrote a cron to create "/etc/nologin.ttyS1" and
>> > mgetty will not answer the phone while that file exists.
>> >
>> > Is there a simular function with faxgett?
>> >
>> > Thanx,
>> > John
>
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