System information

Red Book for AIX Rel. 7.0 and 8.0

Installing VSI-FAX Gold

This section details the VSI-FAX Gold installation. Intuit Eclipse may have configured your

Eclipse server prior to shipping. Please contact Eclipse System Support with any questions or

concerns you might have.

Note: The installation instructions below use a MultiTech modem. Consult your

modem documentation if you are using a different modem and experience

modem problems.

To install VSI-FAX:

1. Shell out of Eclipse to the Unix prompt, as follows:

• From the System menu, select TCL.

• At the ; prompt, type sh and press Enter.

; sh

• At the $ prompt, type su and press Enter.

$ su

• At the # prompt, type in your root password and press Enter.

2. Connect the MultiTech modem (MTl932ZDX) to a serial port on the host system using a

standard modem cable.

Note: The serial port you choose must have full modem control. The S1, S2, or

S3 ports on the back of the RISC or a concentrator port controlled by a 128

port controller will work; a concentrator port controlled by a 64 port

adapter WILL NOT WORK! Also, there are no special modem strings that

need to be programmed; factory modem settings are appropriate.

3. Connect the modem to a phone line using the “line” jack on the back of the modem.

4. Turn on the modem.

5. Identify the Unix tty associated with the port to which the modem is connected.

6. Enter the following command to locate the PID of any processes associated with this tty:

# ps -ft ttyx (where x is the tty number)

The system returns something similar to the following:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD

root 3994 1 0 Mar 12 2 0:00 sleep

7. Enter the following command to disable the tty:

# pdisable ttyx (where x is the port number)