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I recently installed FlexFax 2.2.2 on my PC running Linux. The FlexFax itself
is fine and so far I have had no problems sending or receiving fax messages.
I bring up the fax server while the system gets booted. When the fax server is
running I am unable to use kermit or seyon (a communucation package). When
kermit or seyon run they either come up with an error message "cannot initialize
modem" or in most cases when I try to dial a number kermit or seyon are unable
to do so and they come back saying "dial aborted." At this point if I kill the
fax server process even then kermit or seyon are unable to dial. The only
alternative that seems to work so far is to reboot the system after commenting
the line in rc.local file that is used for running faxd server. Now I can use
kermit or seyon properly when the fax server is NOT running.

The problem to me looks like when faxd runs it either locks the modem or does
not allow other processes to accesss it. But FlexFax instructions tell me that
is NOT true. FlexFax is supposed to share modems with other communication
packages.

Could you please tell me how to solve the problem.

Thanks in advance,

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  Parasuraman P. Nurani (Parsu)
  E/E SYSTEMS (CAE/CAD/CAM)
  phone # [phone]
  email : [e-mail]
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