On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:27, Helmut Walle wrote: > Hi all, I assume that you can you talk to the modem using minicom and get it to dial out correctly?
What sort of modem is it? > 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 :-) Is the lock file appearing and disappearing correctly, and are both mgetty and sendfax both configured to use the same file? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
