[hylafax-users] faxgetty crashes after 2nd or 3rd fax

[André Weidemann]

I have hylafax 4.1 installed on my computer.
I'm using an Elsa Microlink 56k Pro to send and receive faxes.
Sending faxes is no problem at all.
The machine is a Pentium 200MMX with 64 MB RAM.
The inittab line for the faxgetty looks like this:
mo:35:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0

My problem:
After booting my machine I can receive a fax of any lenght without a problem.
After I have received more than 2 or 3 faxes the faxgetty seems to have crashed.
The DTR and CTS LED's on the modem go out shortly after /var/log/messages state: "ANSWER: FAX CONNECTION"
After the modem hangs up and that nothing else shows up in /var/log/messages.
I then have to kill the process by hand and the LED's light up again.

Can anyone please help me in getting this problem solved?

Thanx a lot in advance,
André.

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[Joey Officer]

Well, not that this would be a sure fix, but you could edit your cron job to
kill and restart the process every 10 mins or so. This would be just a
temporary fix and should not be thought of as a long term solution.
Something like the following would probably work...

5 * * * * /path/to/script

<DEFANGED_script>
killall -9 faxgetty
faxgetty /dev/ttyS0 &
</DEFANGED_script>

something vague, I'm not up on my scripting, but that would reset the fax
getting every 5 minutes. But you should read the logs and see if the modem
is hanging up, maybe using an better init string on your modem, you could
reset the modem after every connection. I'd look more closely at the modem
setup

Joey Officer
Martin Apparatus, Inc.

[Tren Blackburn]

Faxgetty is supposed to be run from inittab, which with the default
setting as per the install documentation, respawns if the process dies
for some reason. You should not need to manually stop and start the
daemon.

Regards,

Tren

[Carsten Breuer]

Hi Andre,

> I have hylafax 4.1 installed on my computer....

That's the problem with the Version 4.1.
I had the same problem and it was fixed in 4.2.
It looks like that the current version of hylafax
doesn't work so well, so i suggest to update to
4.2.

Best regards,

Carsten Breuer

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Carsten Breuer propounded (on Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:16:36PM +0200):

| Hi Andre,
|
| > I have hylafax 4.1 installed on my computer....
|
| That's the problem with the Version 4.1.
| I had the same problem and it was fixed in 4.2.
| It looks like that the current version of hylafax
| doesn't work so well, so i suggest to update to
| 4.2.
|

4.2??
So far as I know, the latest version is 4.1.3.

--
JP

[Darren Nickerson]

Carsten,

You said: "It looks like that the current version of hylafax doesn't work so
well" ?

Could you take a moment to outline why you feel this to be the case?

-Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Breuer" <CarstenB...@textwork.de>
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Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] faxgetty crashes after 2nd or 3rd fax