FAXLOCK(8)

💖 FAXLOCK — the girlies' guide to yeeting your fax server into LOCKWAIT 💖

okay so bestie, you found a page from the System Manager's Manual section 8, and it's literally called faxlock. no cap, it's a whole little tool for bossing around a HylaFAX server. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

faxlock — tell a HylaFAX server to switch to LOCKWAIT state 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/usr/sbin/faxlock [ -q dir ] modem

that's it. one little command, one modem, go off queen 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, faxlock sends a message to a HylaFAX faxgetty(8) process that's servicing your modem, and it tells that process to change its state to LOCKWAIT. that's the whole vibe. sending a lil note, asking politely for a state change 💌

now, the modem you hand it can be either of these two things:

• the name — which is typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to 🎀
• or the full name of the associated FIFO named pipe file, like FIFO.ttym2 for example 🫶

either one works, she's flexible like that 💁‍♀️

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -q dir — use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax. like, if your spool lives somewhere else, this is how you tell her 🍓

🧚 NOTES 🧚

okay this part is important so listen up 📢 — when faxgetty changes its state to LOCKWAIT, it's gonna start looking for the UUCP lockfile for the device. and then — the moment the device is no longer locked — it proceeds to re-initialize the modem. so it's like, it waits, it checks, and then it does the thing. periodt 💅

💜 FILES 💜

• /var/spool/hylafax — the default spooling area ✨
• /var/spool/hylafax/FIFO — the fifo for contacting faxq 🌸

also, if you want the complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area, go consult hylafax-server(5). she has the lore 📖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

hylafax-server(5), faxq(8), faxgetty(8) 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from the System Manager's Manual and she's dated March 3, 1995 🎀 like, an actual vintage icon. slay forever, faxlock 💅✨🦋