Fax queuer stopped sending out faxes on BSD/OS

[Vivek Khera <khera@kci.kciLink.com>]

Yesterday I came in and my fax server machine was locked up due to some
process running out of memory (haven't figured that one out yet) so I rebooted
it.  Now anything sent to HylaFAX just gets queued up.  I've since power
cycled and rebooted, even restored all the HylaFAX programs and configuration
from a tape made two weeks ago.

My configuration is this: BSD/OS 2.0.1 with 20Mb RAM.  I'm running HylaFAX
3.0p1.  The queuer reports this to the log when it starts:

 HylaFAX (tm) Version 3.0pl1113

and my current fax queue looks like this:

[fax@zax]# faxstat -a
Server on faxmachine:FIFO for all modems: Running.
Server on faxmachine:tty05 for +1.301.548.4366: Running and idle.
Server on faxmachine:tty06 for +1.301.548.4367: Running and idle.

Job  Modem Destination     Time-To-Send     Sender         Status
2245 any   18002726505                      System Adminis Queued and waiting
2242 any   12148550219                      cbd            Queued and waiting
2244 any   14122882407                      cbd            Queued and waiting
2243 any   7032568618                       cbd            Queued and waiting
2229 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
2234 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
2233 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
2241 any   7039126204                       www            Queued and waiting
2232 any   18002726505     12:49 1997/01/30 System Adminis Queued and waiting

and has been sort of stuck like this for a mighty long time now.

I manually deleted some jobs since running faxrm failed to physically delete
the files.  Running faxrm looks like this:

[uucp@zax]# faxrm 2232
Job 2232 removed.

but faxstat shows the job still there.  However, faxalter does seem to do
something.  I ran "faxalter -p 2232" at 12:49 as evidenced by the time on the
job above.

This had been working great for sending out dialy faxes for the last 6 months,
and text pages for over a year.  Now I'm silenced...

What does work is a data dialin.  That gets logged and handled properly by the
faxgetty process.  Also, everything else on that machine works: the web proxy,
IP routing/filtering, etc.

I've destroyed and re-created the FIFO files.  I don't see any lock files.
I've power-cycled the modems.  I've restored the files from disk.

Any ideas on what else I might try to make the faxes go out?  I'm desperate!

Thanks.

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Vivek Khera, Ph.D.                Khera Communications, Inc.
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