Re: [hylafax-users] R: Hylafax Freeze with no error or warning

[David Forrest <drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Giuseppe Dia wrote:

> Hi all,
> I had another occurrence of the freeze.
> This time I followed Lee advice, and looked for faxgettys. They were NOT
> running.
> After restarting hylafax everything is nice again and the faxgettys are
> there again.
> I cannot find anything in the log. I noticed it just happens during the
> weekend, so I suspect there's something related with inactivity.
> Is there any reason why inactivity or some weird incoming fax could mess
> with faxgettys? Aren't they supposed to spawn again in the event of a
> problem?
> Now I expect it running for a week and then die in the WE for some strange
> reason.
>
> P.s: "PollLockPokeModem:      true" is on every modemd config.
>
> Bye, and thanks,

Without knowing more about your system, I can't advise on how to set it up 
to respawn.  But you should be able to check easily if a faxgetty is 
running by using a:      pgrep faxgetty
You'll get a pid if it is or nothing if not.

This test can be put in a root crontab to restart it automatically like 
this example from my root crontab:
* * * * * /usr/bin/pgrep faxgetty >/dev/null ||  /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1

This checks every minute for a pid of a running faxgetty and starts one if 
missing.

Your mileage may vary though.

Dave
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David Forrest
St. Louis, Missouri


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