US Robotics 33.6 FAX Modem with MGETTY

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 02:28:35 +0100


Hi,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "Kenji" == Kenji T Hollis <khollis@Gawain.Houston-InterWeb.COM> writes:
>  >> /usr/sbin/sendfax: FAILED to transmit 'f1.g3'. Transmission
>  >> error: +FHNG:-5 (Unexpected hangup / read() error / write()
>  >> error (int.))
> Well, it still sounds like a locking problem to me. Is a lockfile
> being created by sendfax? Where? With what filename? Is this the
> same that mgetty i looking for? Verify that the file actually exists
> right after sendfax starts, as there may be a directory permissions
> problem. :-/

Actually, without a sendfax.log file, it's absolutely impossible to 
"know" anything about this problem.

We shouldn't even bother...

(I still think, as this is a USR modem and they are known to need it, that
the cure is "ignore-carrier yes", but only the log file can prove it).

gert

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