Re: efax

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:49, Robert Story wrote:
> 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.

What does 'ls -aFl /dev/ttyS0' look like?

Were you still logged in as bob when you added bob to fax?

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