Re: [hylafax-users] Does hylafax require exclusive access to the device

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2004.11.30 16:42 schrieb(en) Max Mothwurf:
> > I think this _is_ the problem.
> > IMHO faxmodem tries to inform hylafax about an available modem but
> > hylafax is not ready (yet).
>
> [...]
>
> > The interesting part is what happens at system startup.
>
> So then, I took the start for faxmodem out of the hylafaxscript and
> set it separate into runlevels 3 & 5. From the boot.log:

Hello Max,

I assume SuSE's start script is OK and the programs will be started in  
the correct order.

> From the boot.log:
[...]

This only shows that the processes are started correctly, but not what  
they are doing.

What messages from Hylafax processes do you get in syslog?


> - hylafax can setup&configure the modem

When you restart Hylafax, it can definitely initialize the modem. It's  
not clear what happens at system startup because you did not show the  
log messages yet.

> - it finds it during startup

I think hylafax finds a configuration entry or a FIFO.ttyS0 file which  
tells it there should be a modem.

> - but it does not come ready.

One of the Hylafax server processes is waiting for a notification from  
faxmodem or faxgetty telling that the modem is initialized.

The error message
 FIFO: open: No such device or address
shows that faxmodem cannot communicate with the other process. Maybe  
everything is OK with the modem, but faxmodem only can't tell this.

> Or is the hylafax in SuSE 9.1 broken? before that it was running on
> Suse 7.3 & 8.2 for ages....

Don't know. I use Debian.


Bodo

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