Re: [hylafax-users] Turn off incoming faxes

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:

> > Curiosity: I was tempted to suggest to leave out faxgetty as 
> > 'obvious'. Not ?
>
>
>
> For faxq to schedule outbound jobs to a modem it must be informed that 
> the modem is ready and available for work.  The most ideal way for 
> this to happen is to be run a daemon that continually monitors the 
> modem and continually keeps faxq informed of its status.  Such a 
> daemon is faxgetty.  However, there are circumstances where one cannot 
> have such a daemon running (like there is a different daemon that 
> needs to be run)... and in these cases one can use faxmodem to inform 
> the faxq process of the modem's presense.  The downside, however, is 
> that faxq really does not know from then on (with the exception of 
> watching for lockfiles) until it attempts a call with faxsend what is 
> going on with the modem.  Thus 'faxstat' output is meaningless for 
> modem status when modems are not in a send process.  Furthermore, if 
> faxq is restarted faxmodem must also be re-run ... and most peoples' 
> 'hylafax restart' scripts will not do this.
>
> So for "us" that need to support users it's better for us to recommend 
> faxgetty usage - because it's easier for the user to do and 
> less-headache for us in the long-run.

Wow. That was much more than I had ever expected.

Thanks for details on the process !

Uwe



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