[hylafax-users] hylafax loses modems

["Jitse Groen" <jitse.groen@xxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

Since we switched to USB modems we are experiencing strange problems with 
modems getting 'lost'. We send out large numbers (tens of thousands a 
month) of faxes. When the servers and hylafax start, everything is 
alright, but after a while (varying from half an hour to several days) 
some faxjobs seem to 'wait'. The fax does not get sent nor is assigned to 
a modem according to faxstat. When looking at the processes (ps) however 
it is clear that it IS assigned to a modem (for example ttySHSF0). 

It seems the following command
faxsend -m ttySHSF0 sendq/q3846
is not executed properly. In faxstat the job simply waits and ttySHSF0-
status is either 'Initializing' or 'Waiting for modem to come ready'. 

The problem is that hylafax does not realise that there is a problem and 
just keeps on sending jobs to that modem resulting in large numbers of 
faxes being stalled. We also had for instance 4 out of 8 modems 'waiting' 
causing great problems. We have several faxservers, all having the same 
problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jitse



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