[efax-users] Re: Can't send fax as USER

[Rolf Pedersen <rolfpedersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Rolf,
> 
> Further to my late posting, maybe the trick is here;
> 
> On starting KPPP a "Query" window popup for password.  If without
> password it can't proceed further to connect to ISP.
> 
> The question is how to solve this problem.
> 
> B.Regards
> Stephen

If you want to connect with your isp, you must give the password your 
isp gives you.  You don't have to authenticate with your isp to send a 
fax.  All I can suggest is that you add USER to the lock group and other 
groups that access /var/spool/ and below or, perhaps it is a problem 
with the winmodem.  Winmodems can be trouble in linux.  Have you looked 
at http://linmodems.org/?  There is more information here: 
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html and 
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html

Did you try to send a fax with fax send -v to see if verbose mode gives 
a clue?
> 
> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 21:36, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> 
>>Stephen Liu wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Rolf, 
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:09, Rolf Pedersen wrote: 
>>>
>>>
>>>> - snip -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>># chown -R fax.fax /var/spool/fax
>>>>>
>>>>>(Is there a "." (stop) between fax.fax)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yes, this works also as fax:fax but I think fax.fax is being adopted as 
>>>>the correct syntax.
>>>
>>>
>>># chown -R fax.fax /var/spool/fax 
>>>chown: `fax.fax': invalid user 
>>># chown -R fax:fax /var/spool/fax 
>>>chown: `fax:fax': invalid user
>>>
>>>Could not proceed further 
>>
>>I suspect this is because the group fax does not exist.  You could add 
>>groups with groupadd or, probably, the RH gui program.  What I am 
>>thinking is that the important part is a consistency between 
>>permissions, the files/directories used by efax, and the groups USER 
>>belongs to, whatever they are.
>>
>>
>>>$ ll /var/spool/fax/ 
>>>total 8 
>>>drwxrwxr-x    2 root     uucp         4096 May 27 11:58 incoming 
>>>drwxrwx---    3 lp       lp           4096 May 24 23:56 outgoing 
>>>
>>>Comparing with your result maybe "outgoing" has problem, not showing as
>>>"root   uucp" 
>>>
>>>$ ll /var/spool/fax -d 
>>>drwxrwxr-x    4 root     uucp         4096 May 22 15:10 /var/spool/fax 
>>>$ ll /usr/bin/fax 
>>>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        31248 May 22 15:10 /usr/bin/fax 
>>>$ ll /var/lock -d 
>>>drwxrwxrwx    4 root     lock         4096 May 28 11:56 /var/lock 
>>>: 
>>
>>As I recall, one of the problems was with the lock file.  This makes me 
>>wonder if USER is a member of the lock group and whether that would 
>>matter
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