Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:33:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAXGETTY Message-ID: <14812.55182.141763.980546@guru.mired.org> 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>
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Odhiambo Washington writes: > * Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> [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. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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