Re: flexfax: Flexfax problem

[Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com>]

> 
> Please help.
> 
> I'm uing Flexfax 4.0 pl1 on AIX 4.1.4. Sometimes modems lose connections 
> with the server and I cant find a way to restart a modemconnection.
> I've tried killing the faxgetty process, removing lock files etc. 
> Faxstat always says : Initializing modem, and then Waiting for modem to 
> come ready.
> I've used rc.local to hack faxgetty into inittab, but it doesn't seems 
> to work.
> 
About every 3 months one of our 7 modems becomes wedged, usually after
we run out of paging space or do something really stupid.  This is under
AIX 3.2.5, but there is nothing else short of a reboot that I have been
able to find that will get them going again.

I didn't throw this together, one of the guys I work with did, and there
is alot of redundant stuff in it, but our attitude around here is...., if
it doesn't hurt to hit it with a big hammer....

It appears the act of getting an AIX "getty" running on the port is what
does the trick.

Try this "HACK"

pdisable tty1 					# won't accomplish anything
chdev -l tty1 -a login=disable 			# Not necessary but done anyway
sleep 2
/etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/etc/getty /dev/tty1"
penable tty1						# probably unnecessary
sleep 5
pdisable tty1
sleep 2
chdev -l tty1 -a login=disable ; sleep 2       
/etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1"

Good Luck,

> Thanks
> 
> Ferenc Cserei
> NIS engineer
> 
> the telinit file:
> 
> # Hack to get faxgetty into inittab
> num_faxgetty=`ps -ef | grep faxgetty | wc -l`
> if [ $num_faxgetty -eq 1 ]; then
>         /etc/chitab "tty0:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty0"
>         /etc/chitab "tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1"
>         sleep 2 ; telinit q
> fi
> 
> 
> the inittab file: 
> 
> tty0:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty0
> tty1:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/tty1
> 
> 


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	Steve Williams, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
	Genie Computer Systems Inc.
	steve@genie96.com