Fax-Device

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Hi,

Lueder Sachse wrote:
> > > When I try to send a fax (faxspool works fine) with faxrunq it tries to
> > > find the /dev/tty4c device as a modem but thatīs not available. In
> > > sendfax.config Iīve set the fax-device to /dev/ttyS1 but that didnīt
> > > help.
> >
> > Are you sure that you have placed sendfax.config in the directory where
> > sendfax is looking for it?  Ask sendfax ("sendfax -V"), or run sendfax
> > with "-x7", and it will tell you in the log file.
>
> Thatīs all correct. When in just run sendfax it uses the correct modem device

Good.

> but it just sits there and waits and when I then switch to X it crashes my
> X-Server. 

Huh?  Sendfax never "sits there and waits".  Either it sends a job, or it
doesn't.

> The X-Server constantly tries to restart itself and all I can do is
> restart the computer or go in via telnet and switch to runlevel 2. I had the same
> effect before when I was trying to run my video card above itīs specification but
> what would that have to do with sendfax??

Good question.  Very interesting indeed.

> Anyway, the problem only occurs with faxrunq. I was going through the 
> script but I wasnīt able to find out where it sets the modem device. 

Unless it calls "sendfax -l tty4c:tty5d" or so, it doesn't (previous
versions had this in the "FAX_SENDER=..." line, but that's history).

> As I can see it should
> use the defaults from sendfax so this is really strange.

Which version of mgetty+sendfax do you have? ("mgetty -V").

gert

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