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Re: [hylafax-users] wedged and reset scripts



Lee Howard wrote:
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.

I'd write a script that goes out to the internet and buys a brooktrout board. I've been running a Brooktrout
board for probably 4-5 years on WinNT/Netsatisfaxtion/Winfax without a wedge or reboot. Our purchasing
department won't switch away from it. My Multitechs wedge maybe once every two months.


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