Re: [hylafax-users] Faxes not being sent

[Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder@scheeder.de>]

Hi,
please, never, never, never use symlinks like /dev/modem
to acess devices. 
These links are a very bad idea of the distributers.
They produce problems over problems. Most are locking problems.
think of the folowing scenario:
you have one moidem connected to /dev/ttyS0, linked to /dev/modem,
and you have dedicated this to hylafax.
now you need a second modem for some reasons, connect it to
/dev/ttyS1 and use your suse-tools to set it up for lets say mgetty
dialin-use. I'm almost shure the suse-tools will change /dev/modem 
to point to /dev/ttyS1, and you wonder why your hylafax doesn't work
anymore.

not to mention the situation where you have one program using /dev/modem 
to access /dev/ttyS0 and another program using /dev/ttyS0 directly.
None of the programs will work correct as the locking for your device
gets completly broken.

In the first look these links look very nice, but if your setup gets a
bit 
more complex your on the loosing side.
Christoph

Dieter Kluenter schrieb:
> 
> Hello,
> Steve Lavine <stevel@i-net-systems.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I've installed Hylafax.4.1 beta on my SuSE 7.0 Linux machine.
> > Hylafax knows that my modem is there and I have tested it using Minicom.
> > but when i try to send a fax nothing happens. i type faxstat at the
> > command line and get the following
> > HylaFAX scheduler on steven.jakinternet.co.uk: Running
> > Modem ttyS0 (828.1796): Waiting for modem to come ready
> > What could be wrong?
> > My modem is an external TFM-560X V.90 Voice/fax modem
> > im running SuSE 7.0 Professional with 128MB RAM
> > any help would be much appreciated
> 
> Change your /etc/inittab. It should look as follows
> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
> # modem getty.
> # mo:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 modem
> 
> # fax getty (hylafax)
> mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/modem
> -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
> 
> And you either should change your modem-device from /dev/ttyS0 to
> /dev/modem, as that is a link in SuSE setup, or change inittab
> respectiveliy, that is
> 
> mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0
> 
> Regards
> -Dieter
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