On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:49, Robert Story wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page > and it seems reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an > individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax > modem into receive mode: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ efax -d /dev/ttyS0 > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: 46:18 compiled Apr 7 2003 16:44:31 > efax: 46:18 Error: can't open serial port /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied > efax: 46:18 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) > > I added user "bob" to the group "fax" but that doesn't solve > the problem. Hoping that someone has a suggestion.
What does 'ls -aFl /dev/ttyS0' look like? Were you still logged in as bob when you added bob to fax? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." or something like that Ben Franklin, maybe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
