new serial hw - new problem

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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 09:47:34AM -0800, Devin Redlich wrote:
> > - your application seems to call "sendfax" with stderr redirected to
> >   /dev/ttyr1A, which will cause its error messages to go to the modem
> >   (that's the "RTN: page bad" stuff up there).  Bad idea, if you want
> >   to redirect stderr, send it to /dev/null.
> 
> The application calling sendfax is faxrunqd.  Another oddity was that after
> the failed fax, faxrunqd was hung.  I had to kill it to get it to start
> processing the queue again.  Next failed fax, same thing.

Weird.  How do you call faxrunqd, and how does its log file look like?

> >> 12/16 08:35:06 r1A   fax_wait_for: string 'AT+FDT'
> >> 12/16 08:35:06 r1A    got:[0d][0a]+FHS:00[0d]
> >> 12/16 08:35:07 r1A   fax_wait_for: string '+FHS:00'
> >> 12/16 08:35:07 r1A  connection hangup: '+FHS:00'
> >
> >And finally, the modem refuses to properly retransmit the page after
> >"ERROR", so there is something definitely wrong in its firmware.
> >
> >Does it always happen this way? Or was this a "freak incident"?  What
> >firmware version do you use?
> 
> Actually, it was quite odd.  This was the first attempt at faxing after
> installing the new hardware.  I sent the fax, and it failed 5 times in a
> row.  I requeued it and it still failed (that was the log file I posted).
> I changed the fax number in the JOB file to try sending it to a different
> fax machine, and it *worked*.  I then sent a whole bunch of faxes to the
> original machine (the one that was failing), and all of them went without
> incident.

Odd indeed.  Especially the failure modes.  It didn't happen to be
"Monday"?

> I don't know what the problem was, but it seems to have worked itself out.
> FYI, now that I've got all the pieces in place, mgetty+sendfax, along with
> a number of other little add-ons will be replacing a package called
> "Faximum" as our production faxing system.  Thanks.

Great News :-)

gert
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