Re: flexfax: Multitech & faxaddmodem problem

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:17:39AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > I get the error message:
> > > "Hmmm, there does not appear to be an fuser command on your machine. This
> > > means that I an unable to insure that all processes using the modem have
> > > been killed. I will keep going but be aware that you may have competition
> > > for the modem"
> > 
> > Jeff, look for other jobs that have things running on /dev/modem or
> > /dev/ttyS1. mgetty (if you have that installed!), minicom, PPP, etc.
> > "fuser" should *not* fail.


> Forgive me, Nico, but doesn't that message mean that fuser is
> _missing_, rather than merely not running?

Actually, no. This is an unfortunate aspect of many error messages
in systems maintained by people without a manager to tell them "make
the messages correct for every possibility": it wasn't able to successfully
*RUN* fuser, and assumes you actually don't have one. It's not always
right about it. The odds of a modern OS not having fuser is quite
small.

If you run "sh -x `which faxaddmodem`", you should be able to see
exactly what it does with the fuser that generates this message.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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