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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Which distro best for me? Post 29643 by LivinFree on Wednesday 9th of October 2002 10:11:51 PM
Old 10-09-2002
Amicrawler, I have to step in and say that you're very wrong about "unix" vs linux vs BSD.
Linux can be used as a toy, and is popular in doing so due to it's physical price, but it is by no means is it limited to that. Many large servers are Linux-based due to it's flexibility. Also, many of the up-and-coming supercomputing clusters, notably those developed for the ASCI project, are Linux based.

Also, OpenBSD is not just a server operating system. I have a box at home that I use for my leisure. NetBSD's goal is to run on as many hardware platforms as possible. FreeBSD is the more end-user friendly, in my opinion, due to the fact that it bundles more software and enables more features by default.

by "the pimpin bsd", I'm guessing you mean BSDi...

And OSX is not in itself Unix. It's wrapped around a Unix-derived system named Darwin, but OSX itself is not "Unix".

SD,
The main difference between Redhats Professional and Personal editions, historically, is service, not product. Typically, they will allow you to use RHN (Redhat Network) for updates and provide more phone/email/fax/etc... support if you spend more money.

If you're confident you can get it going, save your money and get Personal. If you want someone to walk you through installation / configuration over the phone, you'l have to pay more.
 

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FAXANSWER(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      FAXANSWER(8)

NAME
faxanswer - tell a HylaFAX server to answer the telephone SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/faxanswer [ -q queue-dir ] [ -h how ] modem DESCRIPTION
faxanswer sends a message to the HylaFAX faxgetty(8) process servicing modem telling it to answer the telephone. This is useful, for exam- ple, when a modem is used on a shared phone line and the server is configured to not normally answer the phone. The specified modem can either be the name (typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to), or the full name of the associated FIFO named pipe file, e.g. ``FIFO.ttym2''. OPTIONS
-q dir Use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax. -h Specify exactly how the phone should be answered. By default, the server process is instructed to answer the phone and accept any kind of call (voice, data, fax). Discrimination of the type of call is dependent on a modem's adaptive-answer support. The -h option can be used to force the server to answer the phone for particular type of call: one of fax, data, voice, any, extern (to force faxgetty to invoke an external application to to handle the call), or dialX (where X is a dialstring to dial before initiating a fax reception). If using dialX, the specified dialstring will likely need to end with a semicolon (``;''). FILES
/var/spool/hylafax default spooling area /var/spool/hylafax/FIFO fifo for contacting faxq Consult hylafax-server(5) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area. SEE ALSO
hylafax-server(5), faxgetty(8) May 23, 1996 FAXANSWER(8)
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