Re: [hylafax-users] help needed getting number of busy retries to "stick"

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

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:57:36AM -0400, David Nedved wrote:
> I've got Hylafax installed and working, but the default busy retries aren't
> sufficient for some of the faxes we need to get out... I've tried following
> the instructions in the FAQ, but nothing I do seems to change the defaults
> from 12 for number of retries... the FAQ is rather misleading in that it
> doesn't say whether the S1 should actually be in the line or not, so I went
> ahead and put it in both ways!
> 
> I know I'm in the right directory because xferfaxlog is being updated, and
> when I accidentally didn't put a colon in the line, hylafax complained in
> the syslog.

Actually, I suspect you're not.

> So what gives?  Kudos to the hylafax team for a product that works great out
> of the box.  The downside though is that decent well-written documentation
> for how to actually change things seems a bit harder to find than I would
> expect.

You can flog me for that, in large part.  That's supposed to be my
niche, and I haven't been doing a very good job of it. 

I think the problem is that MaxTries is a *client* option.  Such
options go in a different place than the server options.  For the Unix
client, sendfax, it's usually the hyla.conf file, which resides in
different places in different distributions.  See the "Configuration
Parameters" section of your sendfax manual page for the exact location.

If you're using a Windows client, *it* will have to set that parameter,
and different ones, obviously, do it in different places.

Hope that helps a little.

Cheers,
-- jra
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