<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Shahar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shaharhd@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaharhd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>you might want to have a look at <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/HylaFax#Modem_devices_permissions_issue" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/HylaFax#Modem_devices_permissions_issue</a></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That's great! ... and better than my solution, which was:</div><div style><br></div><div style>1. Create a 'dev' group in /etc/group with this line:<br><div>dev:x:11:freeswitch</div>
<div style>2. Modify the startup script by adding this line before the 'daemon' line:</div><div style><div> chgrp dev /dev; chmod g+w /dev</div><div><br></div><div style>Now that this patch is in, I can avoid giving the 'freeswitch' user more permissions than it needs.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I also modified the start script to make the modem devices work with HylaFax by adding this line after the 'daemon' line:</div><div style><br></div><div style><div> (sleep 120; chgrp uucp /dev/FS*; chmod g+r /dev/FS*) &</div>
<div><br></div><div style>This allows HylaFAX, which runs in the 'uucp' group, to access the modems.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-- </div><div style>Steve</div></div></div><div style><br></div> <br></div>
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