[iaxmodem-users] iaxmodem - inittab - debian , respawning too fast

[Jose C. M. <jo...@ho...>]

Hello all,

I decided to contact this email list because I am having some problems with Iaxmodem and Debian... I have been looking for information for many days in many forums but could not solve this problem. Maybe someone of you know about it. It looks quite common...but couldnt find information about it.

Lets start:

My problem is that everytime inittab is executed iaxmodem starts respawning many times. I get 9 iaxmodem processes every time.

SYSLOG: Jul 16 18:53:43 ORION init: Id "iax" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

So it is disabled for 5 minutes. It means every 5 minutes I get 9 new processes iaxmodem.

uucp     13797  0.0  0.8   2992  1092 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13801  0.0  0.8   2992  1088 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13805  0.0  0.8   2956  1080 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13809  0.0  0.8   2992  1088 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13813  0.0  0.8   2988  1080 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13815  0.0  0.8   2992  1096 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13825  0.0  0.8   2988  1084 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13828  0.0  0.8   2992  1096 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13830  0.0  0.8   2992  1084 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
uucp     13832  0.0  0.8   2988  1080 ?        S    18:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01

I cheched executing iaxmodem ttyIAX01 in the console and everything looks right:

 root@ORION:/etc/iaxmodem# /usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Modem started
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting device = '/dev/ttyIAX01'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting owner = 'uucp:uucp'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting mode = '660'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting port = 45699
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting refresh = 300
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting server = '127.0.0.1'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting peername = '200'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting secret = 'iaxmodem'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting cidname = 'IAXModem1'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting cidnumber = '200'
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Setting codec = alaw
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Opened pty, slave device: /dev/pts/70
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Removed old /dev/ttyIAX01
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Created /dev/ttyIAX01 symbolic link
Ignoring unknown information element 'Unknown IE' (54) of length 0
[2012-07-16 18:59:26] Registration completed successfully.

I also checked many times the configuration file ttyIAX01:

device /dev/ttyIAX01
owner uucp:uucp
mode 660
port 45699
refresh 300
server 127.0.0.1
peername 200
secret iaxmodem
cidname IAXModem1
cidnumber 200
codec alaw

also the asterisk iax.conf file:

[200]
type=friend
context=context
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
username=200
secret=iaxmodem
qualify=yes
notransfer=yes
host=dynamic
callerid="Fax"
requirecalltoken=no

The point is it is working fine when I execute iaxmodem from console (only one process which keep alive, no errors), but something is wrong when I do it from inittab

iax:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/iaxmodem ttyIAX01&
fax:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyIAX01&

Only once found someone that said it was not the way. that I had to run it as a service. It works for me in CentOS, but in debian initab is the best way to check the process in order to keep it alive. Maybe I am wrong here.

After one day, I get hundreds of processes, after a few days the server is down.

Does anybody know what can I do? Is there anything else I could check?

Thank you in advance for your help! Really appreciate it

Jose