Hi all, I am using mgetty for receiving fax, and sendfax for sending. That is all nice and sweet so far, but now I tried to run mgetty from the inittab to make it wait for incoming fax calls all the time, which also works fine. I have an inittab line
mo:35:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty /dev/modem which means mgetty is active in runlevels 3 and 5. The rest of the options comes from a config file. But when I try to send a fax while mgetty is waiting for an incoming fax, either of the following will happen: - sendfax just exits and complains that the device is busy - something (sendfax?) kills the mgetty, and sendfax starts dialling, but due to the (necessary) respawn for mgetty in the inittab, a new mgetty is started, and sendfax gets kicked out by that -> also no success sending the fax. I can understand both of these, but my question is: Is there a way of running mgetty per default, always being ready to receive a fax, and only being interrupted for the short while when I am sending a fax? Yes, it is perfectly clear to me that the fax standards do not allow to send and receive fax messages over the same phone line at the same time :-) Kind regards, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
