On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:44 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
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.
Stan, What is important is that whatever director you create (1) must have 777 permissions (2) the director that you created has to be the same in the efagui settings The / is kind of confusing under linux when you think on OS/2 or windows. > this is root </lockfax> is a directory called lockfax under root If you are in the user space called Stan for example you are in /home/stan/ often the whole thing is abbreviated with a tilde <~> so /home/stan/ is equivalent to ~/ Now you are in your home space and make a directory ~> mkdir -m 777 lockfax this directory will be under your home space so the absolute address will be /home/stan lockfax This is to show you the effect of the forward slash and the mkdir command.
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.
I made the fax printer in CUPS without difficulty. I have not yet
sending a fax or receiving one, but I imagine there will be no
The instructions were correct but miss the effect of permissions. If you do not have permission you can not run it as a user (you can run it as root) tried 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.
Stan do not make your life complicated :-). Whatever you use for viewer it will print the fax. So just File/list Recieved faxes/ Select the fax /Click the magnify glass with it will load the viewer and print from it.
Is there a way to cause efax-gtk to come up in Standby status? Or
must
this be done manually with every boot?
I will update the guide but here it is one way to do it. Automatic Start 1. Change permissions at boot time add the following line to /etc/init.d/boot.local chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1 2. Add the program to KDE auto start Konqueror/Go/Autostart R mouse/new/link to an application/application/command efax-gtk -s -r The -s will hide it in the system tray, the -r will start in received mode. Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org