Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with faxgetty

[Siri Vias Khalsa <sirivias.khalsa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

when you have multiple faxgetty entries in inittab they must have the appropriate ttys and also have unique identifiers (first part of the line, left of the first colon), like so:

m1:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS4
m2:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS5
m3:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS6
m4:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS7
m5:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS8
m6:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS9
m7:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS10
m8:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS11

then you need to tell init to reload the file:

/sbin/telinit q


On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:32 -0500, Roeland Knoben wrote:
>     Hi,
>      
>     I have Hylafax 5.2.8 running on an opensuse 11.0 server. I did have v4.4.0 running on the server, but decided to upgrade after problems (faxes getting stuck in the send queue). I had to bodge the 5.2.8 installation (installed using a rpm) to get it to run (mainly permissions & ownership issues).
>      
>     I have managed to send faxes using the new version (don't need to receive), but I have 2 problems:
>      
>     1. I don't know whether faxq is using faxgetty for modem status, etc. faxgetty is running, however during the sending of a fax, the fax status is not updated i.e. it always says 'Running and idle'.
>     2. I have added a second modem (and will add 3 more soon as I've got these issues sorted), put an additional line in inittab to start faxgetty on the 2nd modem, however, this instance of faxgetty does not start. faxstat brings up both modems' status however.
>      
>     My questions are:
>     1. How can I find out whether faxq is using faxgetty for modem status? If it is not, how can I get faxq to use faxgetty?
>     2. How can I get faxgetty to start on the 2nd modem? I presume it may be file permissions and/or ownership issues, but I'm unsure which files I need to alter.
>      
>      
>     Many thanks,
>      
>     Roeland.
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