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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hylafax configuration help needed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960606134139.3683B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606061233.OAA16091@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> I installed hylafax (v3pl0) on my home machine (2.2-current) and
> some problems come up:
> 
> The modem is a noname internal modem. faxaddmodem detected it as
> as manufacturer 'EXAR'. During the installation some childprocess
> of faxaddmodem was hitting in between the installation dialog
> always saying that something got 'hung with your modem - eh?'.
> After the installation had finished that backgroundprocess was still
> spitting this message and I killed it.

I had a similar problem.  It wouldn't detect my Supra properly.  I ended 
up going in and configuring it manually.  :(

> Now I thought the idea is to add a line 
> ttyd1 "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty" dialup on
> in my /etc/ttys and so I did.
> 
> What's weird now is that I can't use /dev/cuaa1 for dialout anymore.
> Kermit: Device busy. cu: /dev/cuaa1: Line in use
> 
> Solution ? 

I think hylafax resets the permissions on that device to r/w root only.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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