On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> faxaddmodem is the program that configure a telephone line used by
> hylafax server. Once a line is configured you may use faxmodem to tell
> the system to use it as outgoing line. faxgetty is the program used for
> receiving faxes.
>
> In a send only environment you have to configure your modem lines using
> faxaddmodem (only once) and run faxmodem (at every hylafax startup)
>
> If your system should also receive faxes then it should run faxgetty on
> every line used for incoming calls (this will also use the line for
> outgoing calls.)
>
It seems to me the comment in /etc/default/hylafax
("/usr/sbin/faxmodem is deprecated") implies that faxgetty should be
used in preference to faxmodem in all cases. So either the comment or
the behavior of faxaddmodem needs to change. I.e., if faxmodem is
deprecated, faxaddmodem shouldn't ever set it up. If faxmodem remains
appropriate, or at least non-deprecated, for some uses, then the the
comment in /etc/default/hylafax should be different.
> The debian startup script will check for the variable USE_FAXGETTY
> in /etc/default/hylafax and do:
> 1. when FAX_GETTY=yes
> run faxgetty for every configured device (in/out system)
> 2. when FAX_GETTY=no
> run faxmodem for every configured device (out system)
> 3. when FAX_GETTY=init
> do nothing
>
> I think that this description may be added to README.Debian. Do you
> agree this would be a solution for this bug report? Do I miss something
> from your report?
It might be good to say a bit more about it, though README.Debian
already addresses this issue in section 2 (at least with 4.2, which is
what I currently have access to).
But there is another issue, which I described earlier. I think either
the behavior of faxaddmodem or the comment in /etc/default/hylafax
needs to change.
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