Subject: Re: HylaFAX
To: Mark P. Gooderum <mark@nirvana.good.com>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/1995 04:08:04
>Let me know what you hear. I've seen the same problems...
>
>FlexFax work3ed fine for me, HylaFax isn't...it receives faxes, but
>it fails to launch the getty (actually the getty tries to run and
>pukes...).
>
>It looks like HylaFax's faxgetty establishes the tty and itself as
>session leader (which seems kind of bone headed for it to do) and then getty
>bails when it can't do the same. If I give faxgetty the no tty flag, then
>getty gets EIO the first time it tries to read stdin.
Well, faxgetty _is_ supposed to take the place of the regular getty, so I
think it makes sense for it to to be the session leader. BTW, what's the
"no tty" flag for faxgetty? Do you mean -D?
How are you invoking getty? I have this in my HylaFAX config file:
GettyArgs: "std.%s -"
If you try giving it a tty name, getty revoke()'s the tty, which causes
faxgetty to hang up which in turn screws up getty. The above setup works
for me for outgoing and incoming calls.
--Ken