Re: flexfax: Hylafax queueing but not sending

[Christopher Biow <biow@ezmort.com>]

Bodo Bock wrote:

>The faxgetty seems to be missing:
>...
>Check for a line
>
>mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty ttyS1
>
>in /etc/inittab

That's it! Thank you very much. A command line "/usr/sbin/faxgetty -D
ttyS1" fixes the problem and makes faxes begin to send.

I'm uncertain, though, about what the correct, canonical place would be for
starting the faxgetty in RedHat. At runlevels 1-5, the .rpm setup invokes
/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax, which includes a specific comment that " This
script assumes faxgetty processes are managed by init". Why would it not be
in the init.d script, which would allow restarting of all hylafax daemons
at once?

If I do put faxgetty in inittab, I presume I'd want something more like
this for RH6.0, to include runlevels 4 and 5 and accommodate the different
path:

fax:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1

Does that look safe?

And thanks again for putting your finger right on the problem!