Re: [hylafax-users] installation woes: egetty?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:16:31PM -0800, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Hello all and sorry to bother you about this. I'm sure it must of been 
> handled already but I wasn't able to find out anything about egetty via 
> google or alltheweb.com and well if I strike out between those I'm not left 
> very hopeful...
> 
> Do I need to compile hylafax from source? I would much rather use package 
> management if possible so that I can uninstall it later if it doesn't work 
> out for me. But, I ran faxsetup and was greeted with this message:
> "
> Warning: /bin/egetty does not exist or is not an executable program!
> 
> The file:
> 
>     /bin/egetty
> 
> does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
> HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> program resides in a different location and you do not want to
> install a symbolic link for /bin/egetty that points to your program
> then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.

Perhaps we need to rewrite that message?  We seem to get this question
a lot...

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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