Re: flexfax: faxgetty goes out to lunch

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Rich Buonanno wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sorry, but I am the end of my rope... I read the set up docs.
> I read the troubleshooting docs.  I turned on my session and
> server tracing and I still come up empty.
> 
> config:
> HylaFAX v4.1beta (also 4.0pl2) / Solaris 2.6 / gcc 2.8.1
> modem MultiTech MT2834BA firmware 0207.
> 
> probemodem talks to the modem very happily on cua/b

This is already one problem. cua/b is a traditionally UUCP used serial
port device. You should probably be using /dev/term/b, and making
absolutely certain that nothing is running on /dev/cua/b. Conversely,
if something is running on /dev/cua/b, nothing should be on /dev/term/b.

Sun's unfortunate vendor-delivered implementation of PPP has also been an
unfortunate problem, according to old reports.

> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xEFFFED40, 0x00000000)  = 0
> read(9, 0x000A94EC, 1024)       (sleeping...)
>     Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in read() [caught]
> read(9, 0x000A94EC, 1024)                       Err#4 EINTR
> setcontext(0xEFFFEAA8)
> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0x0009869C, 0x00000000)  = 0

What in the heck was *THIS* about?

> Any known idiocies in Solaris that account for this?  Any
> obvious idiocies on my part?

Avoid Sun's PPP installation: use the freeware one from 
       ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp
if that is a problem.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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