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Stan,

I'm replaying from a phone. Tonite I wiil do it from home with more details.

The lock file name an location are no important providing the same name is use 
and that it has 777 permissions.
I believe at the end of the thread I gave you the steps to start efax 
automatically in standby mode. If note I'll sen ut tonite

-=terry=- 

-----Original Message-----

From:  Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subj:  Re: [opensuse] Installing efax-gtk from source
Date:  Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:42 am
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To:  opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx

On Thursday 14 February 2008 00:53:49 Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 19:57 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
> If you have a problem in any the steps I may be able to help you.

I hope so. See at the very bottom of this note.

In the interest of preventing confusion, I chose to start over from your 
step (5), since the rpm has already been installed.

> #mkdir -m 777 /lockfax

This is different from the formulation only in several trivial respects. I 
mention it only because it indicates that you and I are looking at 
different versions of your guide. I have what was posted on 
linuxquestions.org. I have now entered the command as given above, except 
that I first tried to omit the slash. This didn't work ("Standby" became 
impossible, so I restored the slash, which made the modem come alive.

> Then open efax-gtk be sure you are not in standby and

I returned the status to "inactive" 

efax-0.09: 14:00:28 Error: cannot open pre-lock file 
> File/setting/modem/Lock File:
> and here enter the directory that you've just created
> /lockfax
>
> That should solve the error. I described it in the #6 of the guide.

There is no discussion of errors in #6 of your guide as I have it here. 
Again, there must be at least two versions. In my initial attempts (two 
days worth) of configuration, I had left the location blank 
in "Settings", and made a directory /var/lock, because the developer's 
instructions say clearly that this is the default for the case in which 
the entry is blank. So the developer's instructions are wrong, and it is 
to this that I owe my largely wasted two days. The upside is that the 
waste was not a result of any fault of mine, but of the buggy 
instructions that came with the program. What a pity that the developer 
didn't try this version out before he released it on an unsuspecting 
world.

I made the fax printer in CUPS without difficulty. I have not yet tried 
sending a fax or receiving one, but I imagine there will be no problem 
("famous last words").

What is still a bit unclear is how to fill in the "Print Program" blank in 
the Print page of the Settings notebook. The printer is connected to the 
network through a print server, and its address is "arbol/*". But that 
isn't a program. What does this blank want?

Is there a way to cause efax-gtk to come up in Standby status? Or must 
this be done manually with every boot?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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