efax with answer and spooling patch

The fax program on ANSI C/POSIX - efax is small and simple, espacially nice for single user systems, which supports Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modems, whereas mgetty+sendfax does not support Class 1 modems. See the original efax page.

Here are 2 patches on the latest version of efax-0.9a-001114. The efax-answer.patch is bugfix of 'fax start/stop' command in auto answer mode, and the efax-spooling.patch allows to use two directories separately as INCOMINGDIR for the recieving faxes by auto answer mode and OUTGOINGDIR for the sending faxes with spooling.

• DOWNLOADS
• efax-0.9a-001114a4.tar.gz / automatic answer mode bug fixed and spooling patched(6 Oct 2001)
• efax-0.9a001114-0a4.src.rpm (7 Oct 2001)
• efax-0.9a001114-0vl4.i386.rpm ... for RedHat6.2, Vine2.x, Kondara1.2/2000
• efax-0.9a001114-0a4.i386.rpm ... for RedHat7.x, Kondara2.0


• SETTINGS after installing efax using the RPM
1. Set your fax number and the header in the file /etc/efax.rc

FROM="your Fax number"
NAME="your name"

2. Make the modem device that efax uses to be writeable by any users.
If the /dev/modem is a symlink of some like /dev/ttyS0, the device file /dev/ttyS0 should be mode 666.

(If the modem device is /dev/ttyS0)
# chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0
# ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem

3. Uncomment the line in '/etc/inittab' if you want to enable auto answer mode.

   s1:345:respawn:/bin/sh /usr/bin/fax answer

• SETTINGS after installing efax using the TARBALL
(These steps do no need if you install efax by the rpm.)
1. Make the file /etc/efax.rc like efax.rc.sample.
Include the line,

FROM="your Fax number"
NAME="your name"
INCOMINGDIR=/var/spool/fax/incoming
OUTGOINGDIR=/var/spool/fax/outgoing

(Do not use ~/.efaxrc. It does not affect when efax run as a daemon.)


2. Make sure the directories and the modem device that efax uses to be writeable by any users.
If the /dev/modem is a symlink of some like /dev/cua1, the device file /dev/cua1 should be mode 666.

(If the modem device is /dev/cua1)
# chmod 666 /dev/cua1
# ln -s /dev/cua1 /dev/modem

Directories efax uses should be mode 777.

# mkdir -p /var/spool/fax/incoming
# mkdir -p /var/spool/fax/outgoing
# mkdir -p /var/log/fax
# chmod 777 /var/spool/fax/incoming
# chmod 777 /var/spool/fax/outgoing
# chmod 777 /var/log/fax
# chmod 777 /var/lock

3. Make a symlink faxlpr

   # ln -s /usr/bin/fax /usr/bin/faxlpr

4. Add the statements like printcap.sample to /etc/printcap.

   ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL 
   fax:\
           :sd=/var/spool/fax/outgoing:\
           :mx#0:\
           :sh:\
           :lp=/dev/null:\
           :if=/usr/bin/faxlpr:

5. restart lpd

   # /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart

6. Uncomment the line in '/etc/inittab' if you want to enable auto answer mode.

   s1:345:respawn:/bin/sh /usr/bin/fax answer

• CONTACT

E-mail to tkscanfax <shino@pos.to> for questions, comments or suggestions.