[hylafax-users] Shared line setup not answering - not configured error?

[Yobb <yobb@shaw.ca>]

frbn wrote:
> 
> regarding the subject of your message
> I think you want to receive something
> so you should put RingsBeforeAnswer to 1
> as 0 causes your modem *not* to answer.
> 
> by the way faxgetty should be launched
> from /etc/inittab (according to the documentation)
> 
> Yobb wrote:
> > Any help here would be great!
> >
> > My file config.ttyS1 has the following
> >
> > RingsBeforeAnswer:      0
> >
> > and I have run faxgetty -D ttyS1 on a root account of the machine.
> >
> > when I type the following I get the error output as shown.
> >
> > hammer:/etc/hylafax# faxanswer ttyS1
> > dev_FIFO.ttyS1: open: No such file or directory
> >
> > When I use faxstate I get the following output
> >
> > hammer:/etc/hylafax# faxstate ttyS1
> > dev/FIFO.ttyS1: open: Device not configured
> >
> > Funny thing is that I can send faxes with the sendfax command.  As far
> > as sending goes everything seems OK.
> > I ran faxsetup and answered all of the prompts.  I also ran faxaddmodem
> > ttyS1.  Is there something I have missed?

Actually RingsBeforeAnswer = 0 is used when a fax modem is on a shared
line.
The modem will not answer the phone unless I tell it to by issuing a
faxanswer.

It doesn't matter how a faxgetty is launched as long as it is launched
as an appropriately 
privileged user.  I launched it as root while doing my setup work to
ensure that I would not have to 
deal with permission problems while doing a setup.  (Divide and
conquer.)

Note I am using v4.0p12 of hylafax.

What I want to know is how to get rid of the Device not configured error
and 
how to get hylafax to respond to the faxanswer command as one would
like.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,MTY

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