Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty and status

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Lee Howard wrote:
> hylafax wrote:
> > I am running 6.0.4 version of hylafax
> > on a serial modem, MT5600DSVD
> >
> > Can someone give clarification on the following:
> >
> > If the modem is turned off should faxstat -s
> > report within a few seconds that is it 'Waiting for modem to come ready'
> > or is that only detected the next time the modem is requested to be 
> > used?
>
> Once the modem is initialized HylaFAX won't know that the modem is 
> unavailable in this scenario until it attempts a command and the 
> command fails.  Furthermore, once the modem is turned on again it will 
> not likely be initialized properly for fax.  Consequently, the next 
> call will probably fail.
>
> > if after turning the modem off
> > if I /etc/init.d/hylafax restart
> >
> > it then does report that its waiting to come ready
> > but shouldn't it detect this without a restart? 
>
> In HylaFAX+ (http://hylafax.sourceforge.net) there is a relatively new 
> feature called "PollLockPokeModem" (that defaults to false) that can 
> be enabled in the modem config file.  Enabling this will achieve the 
> result that you are asking for.
Lee,

I tried PollLockPokeModem true

and still get the same behaviour

paul


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