Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with faxgetty

["Roeland Knoben" <rknoben@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Siri,

 

Thanks for that! You fixed my problem. I didn't have unique identifers for each instance of faxgetty.

 

Roeland.

 

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From: Siri Vias Khalsa [mailto:sirivias.khalsa@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 March 2009 20:16
To: Roeland Knoben
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Problems with faxgetty

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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-Siri Vias

Siri Vias Khalsa
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