From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 12:33:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D977B37B503 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3250 invoked by uid 100); 5 Oct 2000 19:33:34 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14812.55182.141763.980546@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:33:34 -0500 (CDT) To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAXGETTY In-Reply-To: <20001005161842.E22805@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> References: <26029815@toto.iv> <14811.61695.718175.619706@guru.mired.org> <20001005161842.E22805@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington writes: > * Mike Meyer [20001005 06:10]: > =>Odhiambo Washington writes: > =>> May I kindly request for help with running faxgetty everytime the computer > =>> boots up. I need it for faxing service with Hylafax but I am dumb on that point. > =>> I need it to be ALWAYS on ;-) > => > =>Put the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, make sure it ends in > =>".sh" and is executable. > I am able to do that but faxgetty doesn't come with a startup script. I am > told it has to be started from /etc/ttys but I fail to grab the details > given in faxgetty man page - it is not clear to me...I wish i could get > much help...I've read the man page but...alas! Ok, I can believe that. Did you look at the /etc/ttys file? Or man 5 ttys? Both of those tell you how to set up something in /etc/ttys to start a command on a tty at system boot time.