Re: flexfax: mgetty again

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

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric Malenfant wrote:

> I think that the "PATHGETTY" and "PATHEGETTY" are not used by hylafax !!!
> 
> i set those PATH to use /sbin/mgetty, but hylafax is always calling
> /sbin/getty!

Uh-oh!

Hmm. Can you reset these in a "config.site" or "config.local" and recompile?
Looking at the code, 

> the only way I was able to make it work was to overwrite the /sbin/getty
> with /sbin/mgetty, with
> cp /sbin/mgetty /sbin/getty and it work like that, because when it calls
> getty, that's the real mgetty that is starting.
> 
> My system works fine like that, but it's not normal to use this to make it
> work!

Agreed.

> do someone has an idea about that ?
> 
> I'm using RH6 and my hylafax is hylafax-4.1beta1-1rh6.i386.rpm

Grab the source, and take a look in the config.site/config.local file.


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