reports bad fax receive

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:58:38 +0100


Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:39:32AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 01/14 08:31:41 aa1  fax_wait_for(OK)
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  Warning: got alarm signal!
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  mdm_read_byte: read returned -1: Interrupted system call
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  mdm_get_line: cannot read byte, return: Interrupted system call
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  >> The problem seen above might be caused by a wrong value of the
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  >> 'switchbd' option in 'mgetty.config' (currently set to '0')
> 01/14 08:33:41 aa1  >> try using 'switchbd 19200'
[..]

> Any ideas?

Why don't you just read what the mgetty log file says?  Those three lines
contain exactly the necessary recommendation for this standard problem.

gert
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