Re: flexfax: remove a modem

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Matthias Reich wrote:


> Hello to everybody on the list.
> 
> After reading man-pages and the mail-archive I still do not know what to
> do.
> I put my modems to other ports.
> Ok, I plugged the modems in the new ports and ran faxaddmodem for each,
> and they work fine on the new ports.
> my problem is, how to tell the scheduler not to use the old ports
> for sending. faxstate -s down portNO comes back with:
> FIFO.cua_15: open: No such file or directory
> the pipe does not exist anymore. after restarting the scheduler I get
> "wedged-emails" every minute, telling me that there is a problem with
> the
> modem on OLDport XY. 

Make sure you've nuked, by hand if necessary, all the faxgetty's associated
with the old ports. And take them out of the "inittab" or "ttytab" or
whatever your system uses to re-start getty's.

> where does the scheduler exactly store the information of which modems
> to use
> in /var/spool/fax/status appear the status-files for the old ports too.
> so what to do, I guess it is very simple

I think this information comes from faxgetty: the FIFO's are used
to transmit information to the various schedule and handling
programs.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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