Starting faxgetty on startup

[Adrie Schouten]

I'm not too experienced with Linux, but sick of MS, I would like to setup my
linux system as a faxserver, using Hylafax. I use a Fedora core 1, my modem
is working as ttyS0 and I can start faxgetty from the command line. But it
does not start on start up. In the manual it says I should configure
/etc/inittab, which I tried, but I don't know what the lines there mean. Can
anybody tell me how the line should look and whether I need to set up
faxgetty somewhere else as well. I start the program manually with this
command (I haven't received faxes with it yet, but the modems answers when I
call the number):

/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0

Thanks in advance!

[Michael Heiming]

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Post by Adrie Schouten
I'm not too experienced with Linux, but sick of MS, I would like to setup my
linux system as a faxserver, using Hylafax. I use a Fedora core 1, my modem
is working as ttyS0 and I can start faxgetty from the command line. But it
does not start on start up. In the manual it says I should configure
/etc/inittab, which I tried, but I don't know what the lines there mean. Can

man inittab

Has all info you need, including examples.

Good luck

[Raqueeb Hassan]

You might have to edit \etc\inittab file for hylafax to receive calls.
Please add the following at the bottom of inittab:

S0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0


hth

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Post by Raqueeb Hassan
You might have to edit \etc\inittab file for hylafax to receive calls.
S0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0

Confirm this one. I used to be one of the HylaFAX maintainers, and this is
precisely how you do it in modern versions of Linux.

By the way, it's also very useful to use Kermit to test the state of the
modem and make sure it handles outgoing connections correctly, and to
examine the state of the modem registers.

[Adrie Schouten]

That works. Thanks!
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Afzender: Adrie Schouten, filmkeuze.nl
http://www.filmkeuze.nl/

Post by Raqueeb Hassan
You might have to edit \etc\inittab file for hylafax to receive calls.
S0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0
hth
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raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)