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Re: [hylafax-users] multi-modem questions



At 09:59 AM 6/6/01 -0400, Matthew Case wrote:
>Greetings. I have just installed HylaFAX 4.1 beta 3 on a system running Red 
>Hat 7.1. I need to create a fax server that has a bank of (around) 10 
>faxmodems. To run tests I installed a US Robotics 56k Faxmodem on ttyS1 and 
>it works fine. Then to test a second modem I attatched a US Robotics 33.6 to 
>ttyS0 and it refuses to work correctly. First it wouldn't accept faxes 
>unless I had just configured it using faxaddmodem. It would accept one fax 
>and then stop accepting faxes. Then I removed that modem and replaced it 
>with a different US Robotics 33.6. That modem wouldn't accept faxes at all. 
>Finally, I swapped the two modems so the 56k is on ttyS0 and the 33.6 is on 
>ttyS1. The 56k continues to work but neither of the 33.6's will function. 
>Can anyone offer me some advice? the DIP switches on both 33.6's are the 
>same as the switches on the 56k, and the DIP settings are the same across 
>all the modems.

Run faxgetty on all of your modems.

>Also, is there any way for me to have HylaFAX dump the TIF files into 
>specific directories based on which modem is receiving a transmission? I 
>need to catalog the faxes in a database based on who is faxing us. I can't 
>have a big pool of TIF files from 10 different customers all in one 
>directory.

Read 'man faxrcvd', investigate FaxDispatch, and see:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139

Lee.



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