[hylafax-users] Auto answer difficulty with faxgetty

[dkolts <dkolts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having some difficulty with faxgetty.  I'm able to send faxes and
manually receive faxes using faxanswer.  I'm unable, however, to get
faxgetty to work to automatically answer calls.

I've added the following line to my /etc/inittab file.

# Run faxgetty (hylafax)
fax:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttySHCF0

I've added a portion of my /var/log/messages file showing the results of
the fax.

-------------------------------------------------
Dec  1 18:19:59 mail FaxGetty[4019]: OPEN /dev/ttySHCF0  HylaFAX (tm)
Version 4.2.0
Dec  1 18:20:09 mail FaxGetty[4019]: MODEM ROCKWELL
RC288DPi/hcfpcimodem-1.01lnxt04111500full

(at this point I'm send a fax to this machine and know it is ringing
because the phone attached to the phone jack on the modem is ringing.)

(after 10 rings I press enter the information below - if you were
wondering ringsbeforeanswer was set to 1).
[root@mail root]# faxanswer ttySHCF0  

The portion below is the subsequent portion of /var/log/messages log
file.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dec  1 18:28:24 mail FaxGetty[4019]: ANSWER any
Dec  1 18:28:31 mail FaxGetty[4019]: ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION  DEVICE
'/dev/ttySHCF0'
Dec  1 18:28:51 mail FaxGetty[4019]: RECV FAX (000000010): from , page 1
in 0:11, INF, 3.85 line/mm, 2-D MMR, 14400 bit/s
Dec  1 18:28:51 mail FaxGetty[4019]: RECV FAX (000000010):
recvq/fax000000009.tif from , route to <unspecified>, 1 pages in 0:20
Dec  1 18:28:53 mail FaxGetty[4019]: RECV FAX: bin/faxrcvd
"recvq/fax000000009.tif" "ttySHCF0" "000000010" "" "" ""
Dec  1 18:29:04 mail FaxGetty[4019]: MODEM ROCKWELL
RC288DPi/hcfpcimodem-1.01lnxt04111500full

----------------------------------------------------------------------

The /var/spool/hylafax/log/C00000* files don't get created until I enter
"faxanswer ttySHCF0 <enter>"

I'm running Hylafax versionhylafax-4.2.0-1rh9 under Linux RedHat 9.0
(2.4.20-8) with gcc-3.2.2-5 and libtiff-3.5.7-11; Conexant HCF 56k
Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (rev 08) with Linuxant i686 drivers
 
Do you have any suggestions?

Regards,

David Kolts


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