Re: [hylafax-users] Fedora Core 5

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terry D. Boldt wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > You probably need to run faxgetty.
>
>
> Could you expand a little and explain how to get faxgetty running when 
> the computed is booted.


Traditionally people run faxgetty from init by adding a line with 
"respawn" to /etc/inittab for each faxgetty instance (one per modem) 
that they want to run... making sure that the identifiers are unique for 
each invocation.  Then, you reload init by 'init q'.

Running faxgetty that way provides for some redundancy in case faxgetty 
dies unexpectedly... or if the modem wedges and faxgetty exits - init 
will restart faxgetty.  These days I would be quite surprised to see 
faxgetty die unexpectly... unless you're testing some bleeding-edge 
faxgetty code that is risky in its behavior.  Rather, the real value 
these days for running faxgetty this way is for the wedged situations.  
Sometimes closing the handle on the modem device node and then 
re-opening it can be useful ... in particular in cases where the 
"device" is actually a movable symlink.

However, for many people it may simply be more desireable to launch 
faxgetty from a startup script, like rc.local.  To do that you'll use 
the 'faxgetty -D' option to get faxgetty to detach from the controlling 
tty so that startup script execution can continue.

I suggest that you read section 2.2.5 under:

 http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/install.php#ss2.2

Thanks,

Lee.


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