Re: [efax-users] Efax will not following symbolic links for serial device

[Kevin Hilton <kev_hilton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tip.  I will try when I get home and report back.  It would save me from having to always run efax/ efax-gtk as root.

Kevin Hilton 

kev_hilton@xxxxxxxxxxx

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> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:37:33 -0700
> From: edc@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [efax-users] Efax will not following symbolic links for serial device
> To: kev_hilton@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: efax-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi,
> 
> efax should be able to follow symbolic links.
> 
> I think you might need to mount the /dev/pts device with group
> ownership of 'dialout' (after adding yourself to that group) and
> give group r+w permissions.
> 
> The last entry in the following Ubuntu forum article:
> 
> 	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2010189
> 
> says you can do this by using the following options to the
> 'martian_modem' command:
> 
> 	martian_modem --daemon --user=root --group=dialout --mode=0660
> 
> -- 
> Ed Casas  edc@xxxxxxx   http://www.cce.com
> 
> >   Currently using efax v 0.9a-001114 with efax-gtk 3.0.12.
> >
> >   My problem is with setting the serial device.
> >
> >   I currently use a winmodem on ubuntu feisty.  Im using the martian drives
> >   for the winmodem.  There are a series of symbolic links which it seems
> >   efax cannot traverse.  The actual modem is at ttySM0 which is a symbolic
> >   link to /dev/pts/3.
> >
> >   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2007-05-02 20:43 modem -> /dev/ttySM0
> >   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-05-04 03:29 ttySM0 -> /dev/pts/3
> >   crw--w----  1 root  tty  136, 3 2007-05-04 03:29 3
> >
> >   Problems:
> >   1. efax seems not to be able to traverse the symbolic links.
> >   2. /dev/pts/3 is mounted by mtab -- so it is dynamic.  Sometime ttySM0
> >   points to /dev/pts/3 and other /dev/pts/4.  (Possibly more!)\
> >
> >   mtab file snippet: devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> >
> >   3. I can insert pts/3 into the config file, however its use requires admin
> >   priveledges so I can really only use program as root user.
> >   4. Although I can use pts/3 as the serial device I am not guaranteed this
> >   will exist.  As mentioned above, sometimes the fax is mounted as pts/4 or
> >   pts/3.
> >
> >   Any suggestions on how to correct this problem??
> >   Kevin Hilton  [1]kev_hilton@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Kevin Hilton  kev_hilton@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >References
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