NAME¶
faxanswer - tell a
HylaFAX server to answer the telephone
SYNOPSIS¶
/usr/sbin/faxanswer [
-q queue-dir ] [
-h how
]
modem
DESCRIPTION¶
faxanswer sends a message to the
HylaFAX faxgetty(8)
process servicing
modem telling it to answer the telephone. This is
useful, for example, when a modem is used on a shared phone line and the
server is configured to not normally answer the phone.
The specified
modem can either be the name (typically the last component
of the terminal port the modem is attached to), or the full name of the
associated
FIFO named pipe file, e.g. ``FIFO.ttym2''.
OPTIONS¶
- -q dir
- Use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax.
- -h
- Specify exactly how the phone should be answered. By default, the
server process is instructed to answer the phone and accept any kind of
call (voice, data, fax). Discrimination of the type of call is dependent
on a modem's adaptive-answer support. The -h option can be
used to force the server to answer the phone for particular type of call:
one of fax, data, voice, any, extern
(to force faxgetty to invoke an external application to to handle
the call), or dialX (where X is a dialstring to dial before
initiating a fax reception). If using dialX, the specified
dialstring will likely need to end with a semicolon (``;'').
FILES¶
/var/spool/hylafax default spooling area
/var/spool/hylafax/FIFO fifo for contacting faxq
Consult
hylafax-server(5) for a complete discussion of the structure and
content of the spooling area.
SEE ALSO¶
hylafax-server(5),
faxgetty(8)