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:
Terry...
Do I not remember you ..
Yes, Hi Stan!
Actually, Carlos gave me the clue to a prepared binary RPM for efax,
A basic principle is that if the rpm does not work, do not spent too much time with it and do it from source. If they problem is basic setup is different. If you have trouble, just follow the guide a wrote, it is long to read but short to implement. I added extra descriptions mainly for people new to linux. If you have a problem in any the steps I may be able to help you.
I'll march through your apparently well prepared guide tomorrow.
***** efax-09a 17.34.22 Error: can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/TMP 13605 permission denied
efax-09a 17.34.22 finished - unrecoverable error *****
#mkdir -m 777 /lockfax
Then open efax-gtk be sure you are not in standby and
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.
1) I understood that the program is capable of providing a virtual printer, so that one can print from an application. I don't know how to do this, and it is nowhere mentioned, as far as I could see. I assume that a driver for it would have to pipe content through ghostscript to efax-gtk, but that is the limit of my guessing.
Stan this is in the guide and I wrote 2 ways to do it.
2) Although there is now no error about being able to find the log file I have defined, when I try to open the log I get a warning reading: "Cannot open logfile for viewing". Why is one of the mysteries of the early 21st century.
The log file is define under File/Setting/Logging
I set the name and location of the logfile when I configured. efax-gtk knows where it is. It just "can't" open it. When I run the program as root from a terminal (per suggestion of Carlos), by the way, I don't even get a chance to try, as the options in the "Log" entry are all greyed out.
I do of course have a faxmodem, external USR 56K.
Have you been able to connect?
The program is running now (from terminal, as root); the CD LED is illuminated, and the status message says that it is standing by waiting anxiously for a fax.
If not suse has many utilities to accomplish it. I like wvdial
#wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf will scan all the ports etc. Well this is not a modem guide :) but you have to see the modem before efax can work.
Now it works. From the GUI, it doesn't work.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have already spent far too much time in wrestling with this enigmatic program.
Hey! that's part of the fun!
No, overcoming problems in reasonable time, with documentation that is written in such a way as to aid the process, is part of the fun. Spending far too much time with no return is part of the frustration. When I notice that going around in circles for a whole day is causing me to neglect things that actually NEED to be done, it's time to stop.
Ciao
-=terry(Denver)=-
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