Re: [hylafax-users] how to run faxgetty?

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@yahoo.com>]

--- nicola mersi <nicolamersi@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> I have installed hylafax on a linux box running
> Mandrake 8.0
> Hylafax version 4.1.0 distributed with mandrake
> itself
> when I run /usr/sbin/faxsetup -server as asked I
> recive the following message:
> 
> You do not appear to be using faxgetty to notify the
> HylaFAX scheduler
> about new modems and/or their status.  This means
> that you must use the
> faxmodem program to inform the new faxq process
> about the modems you
> want to have scheduled by HylaFAX.  Beware that if
> you have modems that
> require non-default capabilities specified to
> faxmodem then you should
> read faxmodem(8C) manual page and do this work
> yourself (since this
> script is not intelligent enough to automatically
> figure out the modem
> capabilities and supply the appropriate arguments).
>  
> Should I run faxmodem for each configured modem
> [yes]?
> 
> How can I use faxgetty?
> 
> Thank you, Nicola

From the HylaFAX HowTo

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/using.php#ss3.2

and how to use faxgetty:

Read man faxgetty too see what options you can use

One of my entrys in inittab is this:

s0:234:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0

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