Re: efax - SOLVED
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:08, Robert Story wrote:
> > 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)
>
> Thanks to those who replied. User bob was already a member of group
> dialout. However, the problem was that /dev/ttyS0 had permissions
> set to 600 - I had to reset this to 660 and then it worked.
>
> There was another problem, also now solved. I wanted to use the
> nice user-friendly front end to efax, which is efax-gtk. The
> problem is that efax always defaults to /dev/ttyS1, and my
> computer only has one serial port, /dev/ttyS0. You can override
> the default on the command line with the -d option, but no way
> to do that in the graphic mode. I solved this by moving /dev/ttyS1
> to a bogus name, and created a symbolic link, as follows:
You need to file a bug against efax-gtk.
> root@sonic:mv /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1-x
> root@sonic:ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1
>
> This is the result:
>
> root@sonic:/dev# ls -l ttyS*
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Nov 7 09:37 ttyS0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 7 09:35 ttyS1 -> /dev/ttyS0
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS1-x
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS2
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS3
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS4
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS5
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS6
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS7
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 72 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS8
>
> And now it works.
>
> regards,
> Robert
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