Re: [hylafax-users] Forcing outgoing faxes to a ttyS0

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 08:43 AM 8/7/01 -0500, Josh Welch wrote:
>I apologize if my question has an obvious answer. I have been reading, but
>may have overlooked it and I am sort of in crunch time.
>I have set up a HylaFax 4.1 server on Red Hat 7.1. Three modems ttyS0-ttyS2,
>all multi-tech MT1932ZDX. I have Win9x clients which send via WHFC and
>receive via PDF attachments in e-mail. Incoming faxes are routed to one of
>two locations based on the device they come in on, they are then forwarded
>to their intended recipient manually. The modems ttyS1 and ttyS2 are the
>only lines that have incoming numbers. I want to force all faxes to go out
>through ttyS0, thus leaving ttyS1 and 2 free to receive faxes. I have
>faxgetty running on ttyS1 and ttyS2. I ran faxmodem for ttyS0 based on the
>output of probemodem.

Please run faxgetty on every modem.  If you don't want the modem to be
allocated outbound faxes, then you should change the ModemPriority or
ModemReadyState in the appropriate config file.

>[root@mplsfax etc]# /usr/local/sbin/faxmodem -c
>'(0-1),(0-5),(0-4),(0-2),(0-2),(0),(0),(0-7)' ttyS0

See all the trouble you'd save yourself?

>With the help of the list I configured my dialrules to force a dial 9.

Again, use faxgetty, this should be done with the config file via
ModemDialCmd.

Lee.



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