Re: [hylafax-users] Fedora Core 5

["Terry D. Boldt" <fastsnip-hylafax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee thanks for the help, information and pointer to the help page.

Followed what you wrote and the information on the web page.

Reran faxsetup.sh and faxaddmodem.sh.

I think the latter was part of the problem. Both scripts are in the 
'etc' directory where I put the hylafax sources, but don't seem to have 
been copied anywhere else. I remember now that under Fedora core 4 I had 
to run both from that directory (and add the '.sh' to the filename) as root.

I did that this time and edited inittab as indicated.

Sending a fax now works.

Thanks again.
Terry

Lee Howard wrote:
> 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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