Author Topic: inittab debugging OR faxgetty automating  (Read 1523 times)

k88king

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inittab debugging OR faxgetty automating
« on: February 09, 2010, 10:58:03 AM »
I've installed and setup Hylafax and as long as I do one thing it all works fine.
The thing I have to is from a console su as root and type
faxgetty ttyS0
the console is "locked" running faxgetty until I kill it.
But while it is running everything with hylafax works fine

while searching around for faxgetty automate at startup I kept finding references to inittab
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 still not running.

Is there some logging on inittab that may highlight the problem, or any other suggestions.


k88king

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Re: inittab debugging OR faxgetty automating [Solved]
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2010, 03:53:14 AM »
got the answer from another forum
because running under X (KDE3.5) needed to add a 5 to the runlevel field of the inittab line
e.g.
t0:235:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0