Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty and status

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hylafax wrote:
> 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 

What version of HylaFAX+ are you using?

In your modem config file is it written "PollLockPokeModem true" without 
the requisite colon after PollLockPokeModem?

Did you restart faxgetty?

Thanks,

Lee.


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