Re: [efax-users] question on config efax

[Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed Casas,

Tks for your advice.

> I don't know who put the INCOMINGDIR or OUTGOINGDIR
> variables in
> your /etc/efax.rc.  They are not used in the
> original efax
> distribution, FC2 or FC3.  As far as I can tell,
> they should have
> no effect on the operation of the fax script.

They were there when I read /etc/efax.rc.  Shall I
comment them out?

> As far as the missing /dev/ttyLT0 (presumably a
> Lucent winmodem),
> I suspect you're missing the driver.  You'll have to
> ask the
> Fedora developers why this driver (or device) was
> not picked up
> when upgrading from RH8 to FC2.

This FC2 box has an external modem, not winmodem. 
/dev/modem does not exist.  I can create a symbolic
link but I don't know which is the modem device
/tty0/tty1/tty2 etc.  Please advise how to detect it.

TIA

B.R.
Stephen


> >Hi folks,
> >
> >FedoraCore2
> >
> >I have efax installed and running on the OS
> >
> >$ which efax
> >/usr/bin/efax
> >$ rpm -qa | grep efax
> >efax-0.9a001114a7-1
> >
> >I have previous experience in configuring efax on
> >RedHat8 but the same steps seem not working on FC2
> >
> >$ cat /etc/efax.rc
> >LOCK='-x /var/lock/LCK..$DEV'
> >INCOMINGDIR=/var/spool/fax/incoming
> >OUTGOINGDIR=/var/spool/fax/outgoing
> >
> >On RH8
> ># ls -l /dev/modem
> >lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     tty   /dev/modem ->
> >/dev/ttyLT0
> ># ls -l /dev/ttyLT0
> >crw-rw-rw-  1 root uucp  62,  64 May 24 23:29
> >/dev/ttyLT0
> >
> >But I can't find /dev/ttyLT0 on FC2
> >
> >Kindly advise how to proceed.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >B.R.
> >Stephen Liu