Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty -- again

[Yan Seiner <yan@cardinalengineering.com>]

It sounds like a file locking problem.

I'd delete /dev/modem (rm -f /dev/modem) and use the physical device name.

Make sure that pppd and faxgetty use the same dev name so locking works 
correctly.

--Yan

Volkmar 'Mjoellnir' Seifert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
>>Second,  I have a single line that I use for fax, connect to the net and
>>receive calls.  My installation does not set of faxgetty on startup.  I
>>start it up with faxgetty -D ttyS0.  Everything is fine.  When I dial up
>>to connect to the net, it work too but the problem is when I try to
>>receive a fax, the log states that faxgetty cannot start modem and
>>faxanswer does not work.
>>
> 
> I am not really sure, if this solves your problem, but if you insert
> the following line at the end of youe /etc/inittab, faxgetty should be
> started automatically on system startup.
> 
> mo:235:respawn:/your/path/to/faxgetty /dev/modem
> 
> where modem is a symlink to ttyS# and of course you should set the correct
> path.
> 
> This at least solves your problem of getting faxgetty started on system
> bootup.
> 
> (hope this helps)
> 





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