[efax-users] Re: Can't send fax as USER

[Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rolf,

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 05:20, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> - snip -
> 
> If you want to connect with your isp, you must give the password your 
> isp gives you.  You don't have to authenticate with your isp to send a 
> fax.  All I can suggest is that you add USER to the lock group and other 
> groups that access /var/spool/ and below 

The request password is to login as ROOT to get permission using KPPP. 
It differs from the password to connect ISP

or, perhaps it is a problem 
> with the winmodem.  Winmodems can be trouble in linux.  Have you looked 
> at http://linmodems.org/?  There is more information here: 
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/PCImodems.html and 
> http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html

Thanks for your information.  I am a subscriber of linmodems.org.  I
will post my problem there to see whether there will be a solution.
> 
> Did you try to send a fax with fax send -v to see if verbose mode gives 
> a clue?

$ fax send -v 28382053 /home/satimis/print.ps.001
fax: version 0.9001114a7 (30 Jan 2002)
Now sending fax to T28382053
efax: Thu May 29 11:24:27 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed
Casas
efax: 24:27 TIFF version 4.2 file (little-endian)
efax: 24:27 TIFF directory at 8 with 20 tags, last image.
efax: 24:27 page 1 : /home/satimis/print.ps.001 + 338 : 1728x2292 @
204x196 dpi TIFF/FAX
efax: 24:27 argv[0]=efax
efax: 24:27 argv[1]=-v
efax: 24:27 argv[2]=chewmainrxtf
efax: 24:27 argv[3]=-v
efax: 24:27 argv[4]=chewmainrxtf
efax: 24:27 argv[5]=-d/dev/modem
efax: 24:27 argv[6]=-x
efax: 24:27 argv[7]=/var/lock/LCK..modem
efax: 24:27 argv[8]=-iZ
efax: 24:27 argv[9]=-i&FE0&D2S7=120
efax: 24:27 argv[10]=-i&C0
efax: 24:27 argv[11]=-iM1L0
efax: 24:27 argv[12]=-l
efax: 24:27 argv[13]=+0 000 000 0000
efax: 24:27 argv[14]=-kZ
efax: 24:27 argv[15]=-h
efax: 24:27 argv[16]=2003/05/29 11:24 +0 000 000 0000  p. %d/%d
efax: 24:27 argv[17]=-t
efax: 24:27 argv[18]=T28382053
efax: 24:27 argv[19]=/home/satimis/print.ps.001
efax: 24:27 created text lock file /var/lock/LCK..modem
efax: 24:27 opened /dev/modem

I hangs here.

B.Regards
Stephen