From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Knipe" Subject: Re: Receiving a fax Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 06:26:22 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000701c250a6$91e6a400$fe01a8c0@genocide> References: <000701c250a5$cb11c300$0264a8c0@wombie> Reply-To: "Chris Knipe" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jens Knoell , Linux Admin ML echo ATA > /dev/ttySX &; /your/command/to/receive/the/fax/from/the/answered/modem ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Knoell" To: "Linux Admin ML" Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: Receiving a fax > Following situation: > - Incoming call gets picked up by a human (i.e. picks up phone) > - Human realizes it's an incoming fax, and signals the linux box to receive > the fax > > Problem: How do I force Linux to start receiving a fax since there is no > RING signal anymore (silly human picked up phone first)? I've tried with > mgetty, hylafax and efax - none of these seem to have any means of forcing > them to pick up the line and start receiving? > > Anyone got a solution or idea to that particular problem? I kinda feel I > overlooked something trivial, just not sure what. > > Thanks > Jens > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >