06-22-2017
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Originally Posted by
gandolf989
I can't help but wonder why in this increasingly connected world someone would want to do anything with a modem. What can you do using a modem that you can't do using the internet?
There's still a few corner cases here and there, like old POS applications. I had to dig out an external 56K modem to deal with an old food service's reporting program. They'd just upgraded their hardware, and their crummy afterthought of a winmodem didn't work two boots out of three. That place was fascinating - four generations of computers gathering dust on the shelves. Eight-inch floppy disks. The works.
Other applications: Some cell phones pretend to be a modem, with extended AT commands to send text messages.
And in the developing world, modems are alive and well. There's been renewed interest in dialup connections, deferred-transfer things like UUCP, etc.
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WEDGED(8C) WEDGED(8C)
NAME
wedged - HylaFAX modem wedged script
SYNOPSIS
/var/spool/fax/bin/wedged devid device
DESCRIPTION
bin/wedged is the command script invoked by the facsimile server when a modem is deemed to be in an irreparable state and requires operator
intervention. This decision is based on the setting of the MaxSetupAttempts configuration parameter described in hylafax-config(5F). The
default wedged script sends electronic mail to the FaxMaster alias. The interval at which emails are sent can be configured in the
etc/FaxDispatch file by setting the WEDGED_EMAIL_INTERVAL variable to the desired number of minutes (emails will be sent no more than every
WEDGED_EMAIL_INTERVAL minutes, until the wedged condition persists). If the variable WEDGED_DISABLE_FAXGETTY is set in etc/FaxDispatch
then the script will attempt to disable any faxgetty processes spawned by the init(8C) process for the problematic modem. In addition the
faxq(8C) process automatically disables use of the modem for servicing outbound jobs.
The devid argument is the identifier derived from the name of the modem's device file by substituting ``_'' characters for ``/'' charac-
ters; e.g. term_10 for /dev/term/10. The device argument is the name of the character special device associated with the modem.
If there exists an executable file /var/spool/fax/etc/resetmodem then that file will be executed upon execution of the wedged script in an
effort to recover the modem.
FILES
/usr/sbin/sendmail for delivering mail
SEE ALSO
faxq(8C), hylafax-config(5F)
October 3, 1995 WEDGED(8C)