Re: flexfax: Disabling answer with faxgetty

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

You may also have to kill faxgetty (inittab will restart it) after you make the change.

Damian

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> 
> FAXCONFIG(8C)                                       FAXCONFIG(8C)
> 
> NAME
>        faxconfig   -  dynamically  change  HylaFAX  configuration
>        parameters
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        /usr/local/sbin/faxconfig [ -q queue-dir ] [ -m modem ]  [
>        parameter value  ... ]
> 
> and the config option would be "RingsBeforeAnswer"
> 
> I've never tried this combination before, but I would suspect it to
> work.  Just use a cronjob to set RingsBeforeAnswer to 0 (means never
> answer) or 1 (or something else for more rings),
> 
> a.
> 
> On 31 Dec, JOHN PRICE wrote:
> > Is there a way to keep faxgetty from answering the phone?  I want it to
> > only answer after hours.
> >
> > Using mgetty, I just wrote a cron to create "/etc/nologin.ttyS1" and
> > mgetty will not answer the phone while that file exists.
> >
> > Is there a simular function with faxgett?
> >
> > Thanx,
> > John

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