Re: [hylafax-users] Turn off incoming faxes

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uwe Dippel wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > Colin Bennett wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to setup  hylafax to ONLY send faxes but not receive.  I 
> > > have read over the documentation and I cannot find anything.  Any 
> > > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Set RingsBeforeAnswer to 0.
>
>
> 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.

Lee.

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