Re: flexfax: Modem Problems with faxmodem

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Robert Strattum wrote:

> anytime I start faxmodem - I get the following errors
> 
> FIFO: open: No such file or directory
> 
> am I missing something here?

Both hfaxd and faxq need to be running before you can use any of the
related fax commands can be used. If I recall correctly, hfaxd creates
a FIFO file in /var/spool/fax, named FIFO; which should be owned by
uucp.
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