Robert Story <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> writes: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it seems reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax modem into receive mode: > > bob@sonic:~$ efax -d /dev/ttyS0 > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: 46:18 compiled Apr 7 2003 16:44:31 > efax: 46:18 Error: can't open serial port /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied > efax: 46:18 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) > > I added user "bob" to the group "fax" but that doesn't solve the problem. Hoping that someone has a suggestion. Add him to group "dialout" > > regards, > Robert > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Andres Roldan Fluidsignal Group <aroldan@fluidsignal.com> The Debian Project <aroldan@debian.org> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB Home Page http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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