sendfax does not work

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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 07:54:29AM +0100, Micha Holzmann wrote:
> When this all was done i typed faxrunq:
> 
> #faxrunq
> processing F000001/JOB...
> /usr/sbin/sendfax -v 12 f1.g3 f2.g3 f3.g3 f4.g3 f5.g3 f6.g3 f7.g3 f8.g3
> f9.g3
> Trying fax device '/dev/tty4c'... cannot open!
> Trying fax device '/dev/tty4d'... cannot open!

Well, maybe you should tell sendfax which tty devices you want to use?
tty4c:tty4d is the list for MY machine, not for anybody else's.

> I looked at the /dev directory and there where no tty4c or tty4d. I
> create both with
> mknod (mknod /dev/tty4c c 4 4), i hope this was correct.

Nah.  Don't EVER do things like this unless people explicitely tell you so
- you might toast your hard disk doing so, or crash your machine. Major
number "4" is the pseudo tty driver, so there wasn't much danger here, but
in case you had used "1" or so, bad things would have happened.

> Next try with faxrunq:
> #faxrunq
> processing F000001/JOB...
> /usr/sbin/sendfax -v 12 f1.g3 f2.g3 f3.g3 f4.g3 f5.g3 f6.g3 f7.g3 f8.g3
> f9.g3
> Trying fax device '/dev/tty4c'... OK.
> The modem doesn't respond!
> command exited with status 3
>
> I watched at the lights on the Modem, nothing.

Sure - the modem IS NOT AT tty4c!!!!!

> This is my sendfax.config: (I just delete all the comments)
> ------
> verbose y
> debug 5
> fax-devices tty4c:tty4d

Put the real tty here!  "fax-devices ttyS0" (or ttyS1, or whatever).

Three rules for free software:

 - read the documentation
 - read the error message
 - THINK ABOUT IT, and fix it in the proper place

gert
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