Re: [hylafax-users] wedged and reset scripts

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Delov wrote:

> Hi All,
> I was looking trough the the man for wedged.
> It talks about a reset modem script.
> " If there exists an  executable  file  /var/spool/hylafax/etc/resetmodem
>       then  that file will be executed upon execution of the wedged 
> script in
>       an effort to recover the modem."
>
> Has anyone got any scripts that they use ? 


The applicable scripts will be quite varied, I would think, depending on 
what you want to do and what kind of modem you have.

For example, if you have a MultiTech ISI modem or a MainPine RockForce 
modem you can reset individual modems with a utility that they provide.  
So your resetmodem script would basically involve a call to that utility 
in an appropriate fashion.  If you have dumb (meaning not intelligent 
enough to have such a utility) internal modems maybe just rebooting the 
system is the only thing that can be done.  If you have external modems 
attached to a smart UPS maybe then you can run some utility to trip the 
power to them.  Maybe you want to send an e-mail to someone other than 
FaxMaster (where the normal wedged mail would go) - someone who works in 
a nearby room, and they'll walk over there and power-cycle an external 
modem...

Anyway... the options are limitless and I think that they would vary 
quite a bit from implementation to implementation.

As for my usage of it... it's been fairly limited to using the MultiTech 
utility and doing reboots.  I haven't had much of a wedged problem to 
concern myself with it more than that.

Lee.


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