Re: [hylafax-users] Kill Time Expired on Sending

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

APS wrote:
> Sometimes sending faxes after a while I found the with the status 
> "kill time expired".
> Investigating on the thing I discovered that sometimes Hylafax remains 
> in status "Waiting for the modem to become ready". During this period 
> all faxes enqueued are not sent and after a while they fails.

Are you running faxgetty?

> If I restart Hylafax services all things goes ok, the modem is 
> correctly read and the faxes starts to be sent.
> My problem now is to understand why sometimes the connection between 
> Hylafax and the modem breaks and how I can solve it, I can't restart 
> services everytime and in this state the system is not reliable.

There have been some reports that the "faxmodem" approach to making a 
modem active can make a modem fail after a while.  While I have no 
doubts in the accuracy of the reports I tend to believe that most users 
should simply be using faxgetty instead of faxmodem.

Thanks,

Lee.


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