Topic: Hylafax

[giraffe]

I want to use more than one modem with HylaFax.

I have installed the Dungog Hylafax rpm on SME Server 7.4 and it works well with the modem on ttyS0 which is the default.

I have added a second modem using faxaddmodem on ttyS5 but this is not available for sending Faxes through the YAHFJC client and does not receive faxes.

I know that I can change the port used by Hylafax by

config setprop hylafax port ttyS5

But presumably this will stop the modem on ttyS0 working with Hylafax.

Does anyone know how can I set Hylafax to use both ports?

[Stefano]

Hi
I think faxgetty is not listening on ttyS5.. so:

- you should have a file S85hylafax in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab
- if so, edit it with

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cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab
pico S85hylafax

- add a second line as this one:

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fax1:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS5
- save with Ctrl-X Y
- expand the template with

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expand-template /etc/inittab

- restart hylafax with

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service hylafax restart

it should work

Ciao
Stefano

[giraffe]

Stefano

Thank you for your reply, I think you are on the right lines.

S85hylafax in cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/S85hylafax contains

{
    use esmith::config;
    use esmith::db;

    my %conf;
    tie %conf, 'esmith::config';

    my $ShortComPort = 'ttyS0';
    $ShortComPort = 'tty' . uc(substr(db_get_prop(\%conf, 'hylafax', 'ComPort'),8,2));

    {
          $OUT .= "fax:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty " . $ShortComPort;
    }
}

This puts the line fax:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 in etc/initab

I have added the line at the end

fax1:23457:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS5

expanded the template and restarted hylafax

This has not added the modem on ttyS5 as a modem which I can use to send faxes from the YAHFJC client.

I have made these changes remotely and will not be on site until tomorrow afternoon when I can connect the modem on ttyS5 to a phone line to test if it will now receive faxes.

I will let you know if it works.

[Stefano]

ok..

it seems you have smeserver-hylafax constrib installed.. and then you have that kind of fragment..

in your case, create a second fragment S86hylafax with the line you've added and then ri-expand the template; it's almost the same, but more "elegant"

Ciao
Stefano

[giraffe]

I confirm that the second modem on ttyS5 now receives Faxes but is still not avilable as a modem for sending faxes.

Thank you Stefano for your help.

[Stefano]

well.. at this point I'd take a look on hylafax site for some info

Ciao
Stefano

[gippsweb]

I think hylafax will just use the first free modem, so if the first one was sending/recieving a fax and someone else tried to send a fax it should use the next modem available to it..