Re: flexfax: Hylafax sending hung

[Chen Coulter <software_sourcery@bigfoot.com>]

John May wrote:
> 
> 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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John:

Just a thought.  We run outgoing HylaFAX on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5.
I have found that the fax processes hand if you are not running
faxgetty on your modem port.  You have to manually edit /etc/inittab
to make this happen.  By the way, the full path name is:

/usr/local/HylaFAX-v4.0/slib/faxgetty

Hope this helps.

Chen Coulter
software_sourcery@bigfoot.com