Re: MODEM TIMEOUT: reading line from modem

Lee Howard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.telephony.fax.hylafax.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/27/2016 03:54 PM, Richard Morris wrote:
> We ran through the faxsetup and the faxaddmodem commands without any 
> issue.  When we tried to send a test fax we ran into some problems. We 
> renamed the newly generated config.ttyS2 for backup and I replaced it 
> with the working copy from the previous server. Below is the current 
> config.ttyS2 file and excerpts from the /var/log/messages that show 
> MODEM TIMEOUT.
>
> We've used minicom to be able to talk to the modem and that seems to 
> work fine.  I'm just not sure what the problem is.
> .....
> Jan 27 15:26:25 faxserver FaxGetty[3409]: <-- [4:ATZ\r]
> Jan 27 15:26:55 faxserver FaxGetty[3409]: MODEM TIMEOUT: reading line 
> from modem
> Jan 27 15:26:55 faxserver FaxGetty[3409]: MODEM <Timeout>

faxgetty usually runs as user "uucp".  Is /dev/ttyS2 read-writable by 
uucp?  Is SElinux interfering?

Thanks,

Lee.


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