Please note that your link refers to hylafax+, while the version distributed in oS 13.2 is still hylafax. We had planned to switch to hylafax+ but that got lost on the way.... Anyway, I checked with Lee Howard (the author of hylafax+) on his opinion on that, here is his answer: --- There never has been a mechanism in HylaFAX faxsetup/faxaddmodem to create configuration entries for /etc/inittab, upstart, or systemd. So, in my Fedora package I merely followed the historical approach with requires the system administrator to create those entries. Historically this has not been without a substantial number of complaints from users who expect faxsetup/faxaddmodem to create these entries. In the Debian package the maintainer has the HylaFAX startup script simply run faxgetty for each config.<modem> file found in the HylaFAX spool/etc directory. (I don't think that this is a very good approach.) Personally, I don't care whether we develop faxsetup/faxaddmodem to create the system unit files or continue to require the system administrator to do this. I think that if we're trying to be nice that we ask in faxsetup/faxaddmodem if the user wants us to create them and to then do what is selected. However, as I do most of my installs, myself, I haven't had much motivation to do this... since I almost prefer to do it by hand. --- I have added an example for faxgetty to my hylafax+ build, feel free to test. I run this as a send-only environment, so I cant test the faxgetty https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:DocB/hylafax+