Re: [hylafax-users] faxstate

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Gregor Fajdiga wrote:
> Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com> wrote:
> > At 09:23 AM 6/26/01 +0200, Gregor Fajdiga wrote:
> > >if you are not running faxgetty.
> > >faxstat is not showing anything useful.
> > 
> > Duh.  Of course not.
> > 
> > Are your car's dash gagues hard to read at night if you don't turn your
> > park lights on?
> 
> faxstat reads what is in /var/spool/hylafax/status where is one
> file for each modem. if you don't execute faxgetty it always
> says "Modem ttyS0 (blahblah): Waiting for modem to come ready"
> and with faxgetty not running you can write "Jebem ti mater" to
> /var/spool/hylafax/status/ttyS0. guess what will faxstat say than,
> huh???? and actually faxstat works fine while sending fax.
>
> anyway intention of this mail was not to talk about what faxstat shows
> or what not. i was asking about state of modems, which you can alter
> with "faxstate". and all i am asking is if there is any way to see
> states of modems and if you need to run faxgetty (not) to see this.
>
> and if you don't know the answer, you don't have to answer.

Lee knows the answer, you got the answer, and that answer is clearly
mentioned in the HOWTO, which Lee too his own time to write, and which
is prominently posted at the HylaFAX website, *not* in a filing cabinet
marked 'Beware of the Loepard'. :-)

> i wonder what you say to merchant which offers you a newspaper. a> i'm
> not gay "or" b> i don't read newspapers c> i am vegeterian
>
> according to your previous mail you either answer with a or c.
>
> and if you don't know. mailing lists "are" here to help and to ask
> stupid questions which you don't know the answer.

And mailing list archives are here so that you can see if your question
has already been asked 30 times this year.  It *has* been a long 6
months, Gregor.

Cheers,
-- jra
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