Re: [hylafax-users] Communicating with modem

[Bob Estes <bob_estes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Forrest wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Bob Estes wrote:
>
> > David Forrest wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Bob Estes wrote:
> <snipped>
> > >
> > 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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Here's the response for those last two commands:

[root@robert-smbyo082 bob]# faxstat
HylaFAX scheduler on robert-smbyo082: Running
[root@robert-smbyo082 bob]# ps ax | grep hfaxd
 5525 ?        Ss     0:00 hfaxd -i hylafax
24993 pts/3    R+     0:00 grep --color hfaxd
[root@robert-smbyo082 bob]#


Here's the contents of /etc/inittab:

#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
#               Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandriva Linux are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
# of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
# This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
# UPS connected and working correctly.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

# If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"


# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Single user mode
~~:S:wait:/bin/sh
# FaxGetty Entry


Does this help any?


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