RE>flexfax: Problem with fax receiving

[Michael Firkins <michael@sa.lyppard.com.au>]

                      RE>flexfax: Problem with fax receiving       
19/2/99
Hi.
I can't really help you with hylafax receiving, but I can explain why cu 
works with mgetty and not faxgetty. It is to do with the way they are 
structured:

mgetty does not hold the lock on the port. It waits there and watches 
for valid data "RING" etc and then takes it and sets a lock. This means 
that other programs, (minicom, cu, pppd etc) can pick up the port and 
lock it (except when mgetty is actively using it or resetting it after 
a session). 

Faxgetty on the other hand sets a lock when it is invoked from inittab 
and there it stays. Hylafax owns that port and you would have to kill 
off faxgetty to get the port back so that cu can access it.

Good luck,

Michael
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Date: 19/2/99 8:05 AM
To: Michael Firkins
From: Alex Povolotsky
Hello!

I'm trying to set up fax receiving using a _VERY_ good Class2 modem. It 
works
 just fine with mgetty, but all my efforts to set it up with faxgetty 
fails.

I've tried every combination of speed and flow control I could invent 
(19200,
38400 and 57600, with soft, hard and no flow for 19200, soft and hard 
for
38400) but always gets Missing EOL in 5 seconds.

For some unknown reason, cu fails to work with modem _TOGETHER_ with 
faxgetty. 
Together with mgetty it works just fine.

Setup strings for mgetty and faxgetty looks identical.

I'm using latest hylafax (4.0pl2).

What should I test? What should I look at? Please help.

Alex.





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