Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax and egetty

[George Bell <gbell5@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:11 +0200, Branko Markovic wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 08:49 -0400, George Bell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 08:59 +0200, Branko Markovic wrote:
> > > 	Hello,
> > > 
> > > 	I have one problem. On http://wiki.ifax.com/tiki-index.php?page=Setup
> > > +with+Vgetty+and+Distinctive+Ring I found an How-To where you can setup
> > > hylafax with an extern getty so you can add voice compatibility to
> > > hylafax. One part of that article says "Here the 'egetty' program
> > > consists of vm, installed and configured as for distinctive ring calls,
> > > and a perl script front-end included in this tar file as 'egetty.pl'". I
> > > installed and configured vm for distinctive ring calls, I found
> > > egetty.pl script, and, if I understood so well, made simple program to
> > > call vm with parameters specified in config.ttySL0 file (according to
> > > howto, it is EGettyArgs "shell /bin/egetty.pl %a %u"). Now, I have the
> > > following problem. When I call my modem, faxgetty Locks modem
> > > LCK..ttySL0, and call egetty, and then, in vm.log i get this:
> > > 
> > > 06/01 12:51:51  opening voice modem device
> > > 06/01 12:51:51  lock not made: lock file exists (pid=16793)
> > > 06/01 12:51:56  opening voice modem device
> > > 06/01 12:51:56  lock not made: lock file exists (pid=16793)
> > > 06/01 12:52:01  opening voice modem device
> > > 06/01 12:52:01  lock not made: lock file exists (pid=16793)
> > > 
> > I don't understand this, as the child process (vm shell egetty.pl) is
> > supposed to inherit the lock file from the parent (faxgetty).  Check the
> > pid of the lock file against the pid of the egetty.  What system/distro 
> > are you trying to set this up on? I've never seen a ttySL0 before.
> > Could there be a stale lock file left over from another process, such as
> > minicom? 
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 	I think that I found a problem. The only thing that I need now, is what
> should I put into egetty, since the file doesn't exist. I suppose that I
> should call egetty.pl from egetty with vm shell egetty.pl, but, maybe I
> am wrong. Something like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> vm $1 $2
> 

That is wrong.  The path of the egetty program hylafax uses to hand off
to is already determined during the fax setup and can be found in
{Hylafax root}/etc/setup.cache on a line "PATHEGETTY='/usr/bin/vm'" (for
example).  If you have something else such as "PATHEGETTY=/sbin/egetty"
then a symlink to vm would do.  With a line in config.ttyxx such as
"EGETTYArgs:	"shell /bin/egetty.pl %a %u" and the perl egetty front end
script egetty.pl installed in /bin hylafax will hand off to vm
as follows:  "/usr/bin/vm shell /bin/egetty.pl cidname cidnumber". 
It is unnecessary to write a bash script.

George



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