Re: flexfax: faxgetty in inittab

[Damian A Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

It looks OK. Does init log anything of interest? Have you done a telinit
q to tell init to re-read /etc/inittab? Do you have any other entries
starting with '0:'? You might want to change that to something unique
like 'S1:'

Damian

Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have an entry in my inittab as follows:
> 0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty cua0
> 
> Can someone advise if this is the correct syntax.
> If I run /usr/sbin/faxgetty cua0 , then faxgetty deploys correctly but I am not
> sure that the innitab is working becuase when I unplug the modem and then plug
> it back in, faxgetty seems to die and must be started manually instead of
> respawning.
> 
> Thanx for the help.
> --
> Eric Smith (eric@nafex.com)
> Tel 0027 82 780 7888 (vodacom)

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