Re: [hylafax-users] Contributing an init script for faxgetty

["George H" <george.dma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the comment.

I am doing a cluster with Gentoo Linux. I am using DRBD as the shared
partition and /var/spool/fax  is on the shared partiotin and it can
only be mounted on 1 pc. So if faxgetty is running on the pc where the
drbd partition is not mounted it'll get "respawn to fast" errors.

Either way I was looking for a robust script that starts faxgetty from
within the hylafax init script. I'll check out this debian init script
and see if I can copy/paste enough of it on the gentoo one.

thanks.

On 2/26/07, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * George H <george.dma@xxxxxxxxx> [070226 10:02]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've gotten hylafax working really well (thanks to the help from this
> > list) and since I need it running on a cluster of PCs I can't have the
> > faxgetty process being run from  /etc/inittab.
>
> I'm not sure why not?  If you're building a cluster, don't they all have
> to be running?
>
> > Found a bash script someone wrote to do this but it was too primitive
> > and some portions didn't work with me. So I re-wrote most of it to
> > work. If you use this you'd need to install  killproc program.
> >
> > This is good cos you can do /etc/init.d/faxgetty {start | stop | status}
> > Anyone is free to use it and/or make it better. So far I hardcoded the
> > /dev/ttyS0 inside it to suit my needs. If someone can make it better
> > and parameterize it or make it get the device from
> > /var/spool/fax/config.ttyS0 or something, that'd be cool (me not much
> > of a scripter).
>
> If you're using Debian, they have a much more complete solution in their
> HylaFAX init scripts.  It actually starts/stops faxgetty's when the rest
> of HylaFAX is started/stopped.  Here's "part" of it:
>
>       cd ${HYLAFAX_HOME}/etc
>       devices="`echo_fax_devices`"
>       if [ ${USE_FAXGETTY} = "yes" ]; then
>         log_progress_msg "faxgetty"
>         for device in $devices none; do
>           [ "$device" = none ] && continue
>           ${FAXGETTY} `echo $device | cut -d . -f 2` >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &
>         done
>       elif [ ${USE_FAXGETTY} != "init" ]; then
>         log_progress_msg "faxmodem"
>         for device in $devices none; do
>           [ "$device" = none ] && continue
>           ${FAXMODEM} `echo $device | cut -d . -f 2` >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &
>         done
>       fi
>       # do nothing for "init"
>
> The official Debian packages are very well done and complete.  If you're
> building a cluster and not using Debian, I would recommend switching ;-)
>
> If that's not an option, you can see the Debian packages at
> packages.debian.org.
>
> a.
>
> --
> Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god,
> aidan@xxxxxxxxxxx                                       command like a king,
> http://www.highrise.ca/                                   work like a slave.
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