Re: flexfax: faxmodem -> faxgetty

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> I want to migrate from "faxmodem" to "faxgetty" because
> I want to receive faxes, too. "faxmodem" works fine.

You should use faxgetty even for send only.

> Instead of starting faxmodem I started faxgetty:
> 
>     /usr/lib/fax/faxgetty ttyS0

faxgetty must be run from /etc/inittab, not from a startup script.

> All seems to work well, but the modem sends the fax
> extremly slow, probably with 2400 baud or the transfer
> is interrupted by an error I do not understand 
> and an error "can not lock modem" : 

can not lock modem is not an error.

> 15:28 rex FaxGetty[597]: OPEN /dev/ttyS1
> 15:28 rex FaxGetty[597]: /dev/ttyS1: Can not lock device.
> 15:58 rex FaxGetty[597]: Purge stale UUCP lock /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1

The process that last locked the modem terminated abnormally or
there is a conflict between its locking conventions and those of
your build of Hylafax, and there is another process (e.g. a getty
that you failed to disable) that has locked the modem.

NB this reference to ttyS1 is inconsistent with the reference to 
ttyS0 above.