Re: flexfax: Hylafax sending hung

["Mark Comins" <mtcomins@aperion.com>]

John,

I am not positive how to resolve your present situation but I also am
running Hylafax under SCO
Unix and have found the start and stop scripts for Hyla fax not working
100%.  Are you using faxgetty
to control your incoming faxes?  If so try also doing a disable then an
enable to each modem on your
system along with your stop/start on your hylafax.  I found it was necessary
to re-initailize the modems
for sending and receiving faxes.  A reboot also will do the same thing.  Let
me know if this resolves your
problem.


Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: John May <jmay@tedis.com.au>
To: flexfax@sgi.com <flexfax@sgi.com>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 11:46 PM
Subject: flexfax: Hylafax sending hung


>I am just beginning to use Hylafax as an outgoing-only fax server. My
>installation is on SCO 5 using Hylafax version hylafax-v4.0pl2 compiled
>under gcc.
>
>Once I wrongly thought that I was sending a test fax to an external fax
>machine when I was really trying to test to an internal recipient fax
>machine. So I panicked and switched off the modem to stop embarrassment.
>
>This stopped the outgoing fax OK but I was left with a faxsend process
>running and no other faxes would then get past it. I tried stopping and
>restarting the hfaxd and the faxq deamons but to no avail. I couldn't kill
>the hung faxsend process even with -9. I checked for lock files in the
>/usr/spool/uucp directory and deleted one for the modem in question but
>still no good.
>
>I ended up re-booting the system to get things moving again.
>
>I have since had a similar problem which seemed to result from an outgoing
>fax calling a bad number which it interpreted as a busy signal.
>
>I feel there must be a better way than re-booting to get over this problem
>but I have checked the documentation and FAQs and mailing list archives and
>cannot find any hints on the official way to do this.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>John.
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