Re: [hylafax-users] Utter utter newb needs help

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kieran McGettrick wrote:
> The guy who runs our fax server has gone on holiday. He's the other 
> side of the world so communication's a little difficult.
> He's left me a few tips on starting and stopping hylafax but on the 
> status page it's showing a bunch of USB modems as "Waiting for modem 
> to come free".
> I've unplugged the modems, restarted the server, restarted hylafax but 
> it seems a bit random as to which modems end up being live.
> Is there a command I can type which will give these modems a kick 
> start and bring them to life?

It's possible that the modems changed device names in the reboot or 
unplug/replug process.  You'd have to determine each modem's device name 
(often by examining dmesg output) and run faxgetty for each.

Thanks,

Lee.


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