Re: [hylafax-users] Communicating with modem

[David Forrest <drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Bob Estes wrote:

> David Forrest wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Bob Estes wrote:
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> >
> Thanks for your reply, David.
>
> I followed your instructions, and got the program to communicate with my 
> modem.  It turns out that I wasn't telling it the right port designation.  My 
> modem is on ttyS0.  After installing the new modem, I rebooted the computer, 
> but hylafax did not start as you say it does on your system.  The command 
> "which faxgetty" gives the following answer:
>
> [root@robert-smbyo082 bob]# which faxgetty
> /usr/sbin/faxgetty
> [root@robert-smbyo082 bob]#
>
> The command "ps ax1 | grep faxgetty" gives the following answer:
>
> [root@robert-smbyo082 bob]# ps ax1 | grep faxgetty
> 17077 pts/3    R+     0:00 grep --color faxgetty
> [root@robert-smbyo082 bob]#
>
> How do I start hylafax so that I can send and receive faxes?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob

Once faxgetty is running it will fork for receiving faxes and continue 
running.  You could just start it from the command line (suid) like this:
]# faxgetty ttyS0
or, as I did for quite a while from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. 
The problem with either of these is that if it dies for some reason, you 
will be unable to receive faxes until you restart it.  Having it respawn 
from your inittab automatically is much better. What does your 
/etc/inittab look like?

hfaxd should be running also. Check by running faxstat  (as any user).
or: ps ax | grep hfaxd

Dave

David Forrest                     e-mail   drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri


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