> 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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:mv /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1-x [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 This is the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
