Re: flexfax: Probemodem & Faxmodem Fail

[CN Liu <cn@mail.sinyih.com.tw>]

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> > mail:/var/spool/fax# faxmodem -c
> > "(0,1),(0-5),(0-2),(0-2),(0,1),(0,1),(0),(0-7) " ttyS0
> > FIFO: open: No such device or address
> > mail:/var/spool/fax# ls -l
> > prw-------   1 uucp     10              0 Oct 28 19:28 FIFO|
> > drwx------   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 27 18:08 archive/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 14:20 bin/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Oct 29 18:55 client/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp     uucp         1024 Dec 23 19:04 config/
> > prw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Dec 23 19:07 ttyS0|
> > ....
> > (I manually created ttyS0| manually before running faxmodem -c.)
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> do not create the fifos manualy. Try removing FIFO| and ttyS0|
> and run then faxmodem. Also ttyS0 is the wrong name and has wrong
> permissions.
> 
> It looks here like :
> 
> prw-------   1 uucp     uucp            0 Jan 22 09:46 FIFO
> prw-------   1 uucp     wheel           0 Dec 31 08:30 FIFO.ttyS0
> 

Many thanks for your help! Uli,

I have removed FIFO| (which was automatically created by "make install")
and ttyS0 but the result from "faxmodem -c ..." is the same as before.

CN