Re: [hylafax-users] faxaddmodem won't see the modem

[Eric Veldhuyzen <eric@telemediair.nl>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:03:20AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:40AM +0200, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
> > > How many sub-1.0 open source programs do you use every day?  :-)
> > 
> > Never counted them actually. Most of them are quite stable. But right
> > now I can't say the same of hylafax. It won't work at all. I am pretty
> > close to giving up on hylafax. Minicom can access the modem just fine,
> > sms_client can use the modem without problems, fax2send can send faxes
> > through this modem, but hylafax (faxaddmodem) still claims that there
> > is no modem...
> 
> Yeah, we get that every once in a while.

So, I am not the only one with this problem?

> Couldn't be permissions, could it?

I don't think so. First of all, I have to run the faxaddmodem script as
root, so this script should have all the permissions it could possibly
want, right?

Then the permissions of the device:

crw-rw----    1 root     dialout    4,  65 Apr  3 09:21 /dev/ttyS1

The user fax and sms are added to the group dialout, so there shouldn't
be a problem either:

# groups fax
fax : fax uucp dialout

The fax user has the same id as uucp, but a different (own) group
id. Shouldn't be a problem there either.

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