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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help in setting up hylafax outgoing service !
Date: 7 Oct 1995 19:07:20 +0100
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Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:

: I can't seem to be able to use "sendpage"

: I am running Hylafax on a FreeBSD machine.  When I try sendpage
: I get :

: Warning, no server appears to be running.
: request id is 4 (group id 4) for host localhost (1 msg)

: And then I noticed that outgoing service is not correctly
: setup.  While my inbound service works flawlessly, the only
: difficult part was the following entry in /etc/ttys

: ttyd1   "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyd1"   dialup  on

You'd be better using cuaa0 rather than ttyd1

: Now I am not sure how to setup outbound service.  I have
: read the docs on faxq and faxgetty, while they keep mentioning
: how good it is to run them both together nowwhere did I find
: a way to actually do it.

Just put a line in /etc/rc.local saying

echo -n ' faxq'; /usr/local/sbin/faxq -m cuaa0


: Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

: Atif Khan
: aak2@ra.msstate.edu

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....