Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty crashes after 2nd or 3rd fax

["Joey Officer" <linux@martinapparatus.com>]

Well, not that this would be a sure fix, but you could edit your cron job to
kill and restart the process every 10 mins or so.  This would be just a
temporary fix and should not be thought of as a long term solution.
Something like the following would probably work...

5 * * * * /path/to/script

<DEFANGED_script>
killall -9 faxgetty
faxgetty /dev/ttyS0 &
</DEFANGED_script>

something vague, I'm not up on my scripting, but that would reset the fax
getting every 5 minutes.  But you should read the logs and see if the modem
is hanging up, maybe using an better init string on your modem, you could
reset the modem after every connection.  I'd look more closely at the modem
setup


Joey Officer
Martin Apparatus, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org
[mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org]On Behalf Of André Weidemann
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:22 AM
To: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
Subject: [hylafax-users] faxgetty crashes after 2nd or 3rd fax

I have hylafax 4.1 installed on my computer.
I'm using an Elsa Microlink 56k Pro to send and receive faxes.
Sending faxes is no problem at all.
The machine is a Pentium 200MMX with 64 MB RAM.
The inittab line for the faxgetty looks like this:
mo:35:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0


My problem:
After booting my machine I can receive a fax of any lenght without a
problem.
After I have received more than 2 or 3 faxes the faxgetty seems to have
crashed.
The DTR and CTS LED's on the modem go out shortly after /var/log/messages
state: "ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION"
After the modem hangs up and that nothing else shows up in
/var/log/messages.
I then have to kill the process by hand and the LED's light up again.

Can anyone please help me in getting this problem solved?

Thanx a lot in advance,
 André.




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