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@hashkedim.com> Subj: Re: [opensuse] Installing efax-gtk from source Date: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:42 am Size: 2K To: opensuse@opensuse.org 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org --- message truncated --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org