Re: [hylafax-users] Question on send-only faxing

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Geis wrote:

> I found the following concerning send-only faxing:
> -----------------
> Send-only configurations can be implemented by not running the 
> /faxgetty/ program on ports where fax modems reside (though doing this 
> can reduce the effectiveness of the load-balancing work done by the 
> queuer). Receive-only configurations can be implemented by running 
> only the /faxgetty/ program on ports where fax modems reside.
> ------------------
>
> I have faxq and hfaxd both running and without the faxgetty program 
> running
> no faxes go out.


The information to which you are referring is incomplete and somewhat 
misleading.  Where did you see this?  It leaves out that in a send-only 
environment where you will not be using faxgetty that you must, then, 
run faxmodem instead to inform faxq that the modem is available for use.

Unlike other fax programs, HylaFAX does not go and probe for modems and 
try to use any available modem to do the job.  Instead, HylaFAX 
faxqueuer waits to be informed about a modem and its capabilities before 
allocating any jobs to it.  This is done in order to properly distribute 
jobs across the modems according to the modems' feature-support, 
priority, and other job-related specifics.

The recommended way to have a send-only environment is to *still* run 
faxgetty, but to disable it from answering calls by setting 
RingsBeforeAnswer to 0.  The only time you should ever need to not run 
faxgetty is when doing so interferes with the usage of another 
modem-using program (in-particular one that answers incoming calls) such 
as mgetty.  And in this case you would need to run faxmodem for each 
configured modem after faxq is started and again after each time you 
restart faxq.

Lee.

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