Hylafax Mailing List Archives
|
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
Getty this getty that!
Hello,
I thought I would mention a difficulty that arose for me as a Newbie to
both Linux and HylaFax. I now have HylaFax working, thanks to this
thread. I use SuSE 6.2 installed on a Winbook XL laptop by the way.
HylaFax/SuSEFax would not work. I kept looking in my inittab file. I
would look and stare at the mingetty listings, wondering what they
meant. Yes I read the man pages and HylaFax stuff. I thought that
anything with the word getty in it meant a faxprogram of sorts. I knew
that I did not have faxgetty in the file. But that was OK, since I had
a smaller version if faxgetty named mingetty. Meaning miniture getty in
my way of thinking. I just assumed that SuSE used mingetty as a scaled
down version to send faxes. Anyhow, I think it would be a good idea
to have a "Getty explaination for Newbies" in the HylaFax documentation
that would make it clear that the word getty does not imply a fax
program. I almost thought of deleting my mingetty stuff, and replacing
it with faxgetty commands so that the two "fax programs" would not
clash, in my twisted getty way of thinking. I repeat, everything with
the word getty in it was a fax program to me. That was my mistake. I
now realize that I would have been real sorry if I had deleted my
mingetty settings.
Thanks
George Zeigler