sendfax does not work

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Gert Doering wrote:

> 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 am very new with Linux and mgetty+sendfax. So many thing looks very
strange.
But after any hours try'n'error i find it by myself that i must use
ttyS1 on my
machine.

> 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.

I will write behind my ears...
 
> Three rules for free software:
> 
>  - read the documentation
>  - read the error message
>  - THINK ABOUT IT, and fix it in the proper place

This hints will also placed behind my ears. Many thanks for your help!

-- 
Gruss,
Micha Holzmann