Bob, El Sáb 02 Oct 2004 22:55, Bob S escribió:
My question is: Since hylafax is started at boot time, can I turn it on and off somehow? With an icon or something? I don't want it to run all the time when the computer is on, only when I am expecting a fax.
HylaFax is essentially a fax server solution meant to be implemented in a LAN as a central hub for receiving/sending fax. If configured for both sending and receiving, there will be three processes running in the background: 1. faxgetty - listens for incoming phonecalls and handles those calls; this must be configured in the inittab file which is explained in the configuraton documentation. 2. faxd - server part of a fax client-server process; HylaFax compatible client programs connect to this process on the fax server. 3. faxq - queue manager for outgoing fax messages. A such, it is best suited to run continually and I can't remember any simple switch to turn it on and off. It is started at boot time by an init script located - as you would expect with SuSE - in /etc/init.d. You can certainly turn it on and off using this script. As root, '/etc/init.d/hylafax stop' will turn it off, and '/etc/init.d/hylafax start' will launch it again.
Thanks, Bob S.
Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia