On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 3:21 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Printing/sending to fax a simple text file from kwrite I get a nice > printing hang and this is the logfile output from "Print to fax" (recipient > and fax number edited): SNIP > > Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/fax 'NAME="praedor"' DEV=modem PAGE=letter > 'FROM="XXX XXX XXXX"' send XXXXXXX > /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75 > > /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75 is > postscript... /usr/bin/efax: Tue Aug 13 08:34:26 2002 efax v 0.9 Copyright > 1999 Ed Casas efax: 34:26 Error: can't open pre-lock file > /var/lock/TMP..08625: Permission denied > efax: 34:26 failed -> > /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75.001 > efax: 34:26 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) > There were errors (see T4962419.log). > SNIP
Well I can tell you how to get fax working with efax efax by default tries to write a lock file in /var/lock, but users do not have write permission to this directory. To fix it either give global write perms to /var/lock, or else edit the LOCK parameter in /etc/fax.config to something like else like /tmp This bug was fixed in Cooker recently. Another thing I found about faxing is that you cannot send faxes of dovuments that contain fonts unknown to ghostscript. KWrite should be OK, but you can get problems with OpenOffice. Also if your document is plain text you need the enscript rpm. HTH derek
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