[SLUG] FAX server or gateway or some other solution

2010-03-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, I have a requirement to have a FAX at home. I have vmware ESXi with CentOS virtual machines and would like to create a FAX machine hooked into a modem to the phone line. However solutions like Hylafax require a serial port but VMware does not support serial ports. (yet) I'm just

Re: [SLUG] FAX server or gateway or some other solution

2010-03-08 Thread david
Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I have a requirement to have a FAX at home. I have vmware ESXi with CentOS virtual machines and would like to create a FAX machine hooked into a modem to the phone line. However solutions like Hylafax require a serial port but VMware does not support serial

Re: [SLUG] FAX server or gateway or some other solution

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel Pittman
david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Ben Donohue wrote: I have a requirement to have a FAX at home. I have vmware ESXi with CentOS virtual machines and would like to create a FAX machine hooked into a modem to the phone line. However solutions like Hylafax require a serial port but VMware does

[SLUG] resolv.conf.swp

2010-03-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, i'm trying to edit resolv.conf it keeps coming up with the message that there is a resolv.conf.swp so something else must be editing resolv.conf however i'm not and i've restarted the machine. I also cannot find resolv.conf.swp by doing... find / -name resolv.conf.swp anyone care

Re: [SLUG] resolv.conf.swp

2010-03-08 Thread Kyle
Ben, IIRC, swap files start with a '.' (dot) and are thus hidden. Take a look for that. It basically means a previous editing session was ended uncleanly and vi (or your editor's) tmp file was cleaned up. DEL the swap and all will be good again.

Re: [SLUG] FAX server or gateway or some other solution

2010-03-08 Thread david
Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Ben Donohue wrote: I have a requirement to have a FAX at home. Last time I needed personal fax I used these folks: http://www.utbox.net/ I don't know these people so I can't comment, but. Honestly, dealing with faxing,