faxgetty not starting from inittab
I've installed and setup Hylafax in PCLOS 2009.2
I can get it to all work if from a console I su as root and type faxgetty ttyS0 the console is "locked" running faxgetty until I kill it. But while it is running everything works. in my inittab there was a commented line at bottom #t0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 I have uncommented it, saved it, restarted PC but faxgetty is not running. Is there some logging on inittab that may highlight the problem, or any other suggestions. I have confirmed faxgetty does live in that folder. |
2 things to check:
1) If you are running X-Windows, you will need to add a 5 to the runlevel field of the inittab line, as in: t0:235:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 as the line you have in your post tells init to only run faxgetty in runlevels 2 and 3. X-Windows runs at runlevel 5. Another possibility is that your distro may be using upstart instead of inittab for starting jobs. See if you have a /etc/event.d directory. If you do, you will need to create a file called /etc/event.d/ttyS0. These files are text files describing the job. For example: # ttyS0 - faxgetty # # This service maintains a faxgetty on ttyS0 from the point the system is # started until it is shut down again. start on stopped rc2 start on stopped rc3 start on stopped rc4 start on started prefdm stop on runlevel 0 stop on runlevel 1 stop on runlevel 6 respawn exec /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 |
anotherlinuxuser
<< If you are running X-Windows, you will need to add a 5 to the runlevel field of the inittab line, as in: t0:235:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0 >> yup is currently running on KDE3.5, grand plan is to have a dedicated fax gateway with no X but for now running on one unit. Added in the 5 and all okay, many thanks. |
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