Re: flexfax: Modem problem with faxmodem

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

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Diana Dewi wrote:

> in /var/spool/fax there has a FIFO file and it owned by uucp but size
> file is 0.
> and my faxmodem still  has error messages :
> 
> FIFO: open: No such file or directory

Odd. What's are the permissions of /var/spool/fax itself? What system
are you running it on? What version of HylaFAX are you using? On our
SCO box with 2 modems, here's what our permissions and files look
like:

	0-kiwi:fax,9:09am> ls -al
	total 86
	drwxr-xr-x  17 uucp     uucp         512 May  1 14:46 ./
	drwxrwxr-x  12 root     bin          512 Mar 26 17:11 ../
	-r--r--r--   1 root     sys         1233 May  1 14:43 COPYRIGHT
	prw-------   1 uucp     uucp           0 Jul 22 09:09 FIFO|
	prw-------   1 uucp     uucp           0 Jul 20 10:18 FIFO.tty1A|
	prw-------   1 uucp     uucp           0 Jul  6 09:34 FIFO.tty2A|
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         512 Aug  2  1996 archive/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 May  1 14:51 bin/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 Jul 22 09:04 client/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp        1024 May  1 14:44 config/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 Aug  7  1996 dev/
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp        2560 Jul 16 00:08 docq/
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp        1024 Jul 16 00:08 doneq/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp        1024 Jul 21 23:25 etc/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 Jul 18 23:25 info/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp       22528 Jul 22 04:19 log/
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         512 Aug  2  1996 pollq/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 Jul 22 02:51 recvq/
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         512 Jul 15 14:46 sendq/
	drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         512 Mar 22 21:16 status/
	drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         512 Jul 15 14:42 tmp/

How does yours compare?
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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