Re: [hylafax-users] Can not reach server at host "localhost", port4559

[Bruce Whittaker <bwhittak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> :faxq:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxq -D
>> :hfax:2:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/hfaxd -d -i hylafax


>As both hfaxd and faxq will detach from the controlling
tty, I'm not
>sure what the purpose is of running them from inittab entries.

>Could you explain?  Normally people start
them from a simple call in one
>of the rc.d files.

>Lee.

This is the way it was started when I inherited the
system some 5 years ago. The basic intention is that should the processes
die, the inittab will restart the process automagically
- hopefully picking up where it left off without user intervention.
If you kicked the process off from an rc.d then it
would be a one shot - on a failure the fax system would be down.

In theory this is great. But as we don't run faxgetty
here, we have to manually re-add the modems - which sort of defeats the
whole concept really doesn't it *grin*.

Cheers,

Bruce Whittaker.

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