Re: [hylafax-users] Anyone using hylafax and vgetty successfully?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:03:23AM -0700, anthony@childers.com wrote:
> Is anyone using hylafax along with vgetty to successfully answer fax
> and data incoming calls? If so, what are the command line options that
> you are passing to vgetty via VGettyArgs tag in the hylafax config
> file?

I remember hearing that this had in fact been done in production, yes.

I *think* there's some coverage of it in the HylaFAQ, if you haven't
looked lately.

> I am able to get hylafax to receive faxes when a call comes in on
> distinctive ring (RING A) and I finally got vgetty to run when a call
> comes in on RING B. When I do a ps -ef I see that both faxgetty and
> vgetty are running on the same device (/dev/ttyS2) but vgetty never
> sends the beep and starts recording. I think I am not passing the
> "connections" off to vgetty correctly because I don't have the correct
> arguments in VGettyArgs. By the way, if I stop hylafax, faxgetty, etc
> and change /etc/inittab to run vgetty on /dev/ttyS2, vgetty answers
> the line, sends a beep and starts recording, just as it should.

Yep.  You can't run them both.  You have to have one watching the line,
and have it hand off to the other in the proper circumstances.  I
*think* the defined way to do this was to have vgetty answer, and hand
off to faxgetty if it saw "ANSWER FAX", which would happen when the
modem saw CNG tones, but I don't recall for sure.

Cheers,
- jra
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