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

["Tren Blackburn" <tren@eotnetworks.com>]

Faxgetty is supposed to be run from inittab, which with the default
setting as per the install documentation, respawns if the process dies
for some reason.  You should not need to manually stop and start the
daemon.

Regards,

Tren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org 
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@hylafax.org] On Behalf Of Joey Officer
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: André Weidemann; hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty crashes after 2nd or 3rd fax
> 
> 
> 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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