Re: [hylafax-users] FAXGETTY device path within a Solaris Zone

[Bruce McAlister <bruce.mcalister@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Is there somewhere that I could log a feature request to have a
potential parameter added to faxgetty to specify the path to a device to
monitor, that does not live in the /dev directory?

Thanks
Bruce

Bruce McAlister wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible to tell faxgetty to use a device that does not live in
> /dev, or, even better, to let it search
> /hylafax/install/dir/var/spool/dev for it's modem device?
> 
> Background
> 
> We would like to run HylaFAX/HylaFAX+ using IAXModem within Solaris
> zones. What this means though is that we will need point faxgetty to a
> path outside of /dev because it is a readonly filesystem with a Solaris
> zone, and, IAXModem will not be able to create a symbolic link in /dev.
> 
> With IAXModem it is possible to specify the path of the symbolic link to
> the device that it is using to emulate the modem. So for example, we
> could run "iaxmodem ttyIAX000", which would create a symbolic link in
> /etc/iaxmodem/devices/ttyIAX000 pointing to, for example, /dev/pts/9.
> What we need now, is to tell faxgetty to monitor
> /etc/iaxmodem/devices/ttyIAX000.
> 
> I have done some reading up on faxgetty, and it appears that you could
> rename the config file something along the lines of my_tty_to_monitor,
> but ultimately, from what i understand, this would point to
> /dev/my/tty/to/monitor.
> 
> Any comments/suggestions are most welcome. If you need any information,
> please dont hesitate to ask.
> 
> Thanks
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 


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