Re: flexfax: modem sleeping?

[RICK_@t-online.de (JUERGEN ANZER)]

Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 
> Herman Van Keer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got HylaFAX running. (thanks for the quick reply solving my problems)
> > Last Friday I could send a Fax, but today it seemed that the modem did
> > not wake up.
> > The server was running and 'waiting for the modem to come ready'.
> 
> I had a problem very similar to this. What fixed it for me was mentioned
> by someone on this list. My modem is on /dev/ttyS0, and the permissions
> on this device had been changed. I stopped Hylafax, reset the
> permissions to their default, edited inittab to start faxgetty on
> /dev/ttyS0, told init to reread inittab, and restarted Hylafax. 

Good idea, because it is faxgetty who keeps track of the modem!

> The device permissions have been altered again, 

That�s ok .

> but that seems to be by
> design, as everything is now functioning properly. I suspect running
> faxgetty (even on a send only system) contributes greatly to having a
> stable and reliable server.

Mike has hit the point! I got the same problems here on a send-only
system. After running faxgetty (which is highly recommended in the man
pages) everything is fine.

best regards
juergen


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