Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX not receiving faxes.

["Ramon F. McDougall" <rfm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis M. Linton wrote:
> Ramon F. McDougall wrote:
> > Good Mornig to All,
> >
> > I need your expert advise in figuring out why I am not receiving any 
> > faxes. The system appears to be ready
> > but I don't know why it's not working. I have run faxsetup, and 
> > faxaddmodem. The system is running FC9 and hylafax-4.4.2-1
> > Can someone please help me get this thing going? Please see below.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >
> >
> > Ramon
> >
> >
> >
> > [root@Hermes etc]# faxstat -s
> > HylaFAX scheduler on Hermes: Running
> > Modem ttyS1 (3053738108): Running and idle
> >
> > [root@Hermes ~]# cu -l ttyS1
> > Connected.
> >
> >
> > Welcome to minicom 2.3
> >
> > OPTIONS: I18n
> > Compiled on Mar 13 2008, 00:58:14.
> > Port /dev/ttyS1
> >
> >               Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
> >                                                    AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 
> > V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0                    
> > OK                                                  
> > atdt3053588864        (dialed but receiving fax did not answer 
> > HyalFAX albeit is a functional fax.)                            NO 
> > CARRIER
> >
> >                                                          
> >                                                                               
> >
> > RING          (Dialed into from working fax machine and HylaFAX but 
> > it did not answer) 
> >                                                              
> >                                                                               
> >
> > RING                                                                           
>
>
> Ramon;
>
>     You were concerned about faxgetty not appearing to run.  I am 
> wondering if that might be a clue.  I did some tweaking today and my 
> system became unusable - with hundreds, maybe thousands, of instances 
> of faxgetty running and nothing working.  As mentioned previously, I 
> have nothing in my /etc/inittab (like S0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty 
> ttyS0).
>
>     On reviewing 
> http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Binary_Package_Install, I 
> noted that it prescribed a /etc/event.d/ttyS0 file for my system 
> (Ubuntu 8.04).  So, I added it and presto, problems.  Deleted the 
> file, restarted everything and operations returned to normal.
>
>     With the event.d file in place, HylaFAX could not even find the 
> port never mind the modem.  Incoming on my fax number went unanswered. 
> Outgoing failed, of course, but did not trigger an e-mail to me.
>
>     minicom indicated my modem was happy throughout.
>
> Regards,
>     Dennis
>
>
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Here I thought Linux was bullet proof. I glad you resolved your issue. 
So, what kind of magic is in your /etc/event.d/ttyS0?
I will look into my system and see if it exist and it's contents.

Kind Regards,

Ramon


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