---
name: "efax-gtk-socket-client"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "efax-gtk"
version: "3.2.8-2.3+b1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/efax-gtk-socket-client"
---

# efax-gtk-socket-client(1)

a client of efax-gtk to work with lpd/lprng

## NAME

efax-gtk-socket-client - a client of efax-gtk to work with lpd/lprng

## SYNOPSIS

**efax-gtk-socket-client** \[*hostname*\] *\[*port*\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This program enables lpd/lprng to access the efax-gtk socket server. Meaning the user can send faxes to a printer, which will ack as a fax.\

It takes two arguments - first a hostname to connect to, and secondly a port number at that hostname to connect to.  All efax-gtk-socket-client does is to read from standard input (in this case from lpd/lprng) and passes it to a socket at the hostname and port number passed as arguments to it (namely the hostname of the computer efax-gtk is running on - normally you would specify localhost - and the port number of the socket).\

fax: \
\
 	:sd=/var/spool/fax: \
\
 	:mx#0: \
\
 	:sh: \
\
 	:lp=/dev/null: \
\
 	:if=/var/spool/fax/efax-gtk-faxfilter:\

This will cause a printer by the name of "fax" to be available, which (if printed to) will send the file to the efax-gtk socket server.  If you set efax-gtk to listen on a port other than port 9900, you will need to amend the file /var/spool/fax/efax-gtk-faxfilter by hand to specify the correct port number on which efax-gtk is listening.

Don't forget to restart the lpd printer daemon after amending /etc/printcap.

## OPTIONS

\[ hostname \] - The name of the host to listen to. Usually should be locahlhost.\
 \[ port \] - the port number to listen to on the \[ hostname \].

## SEE ALSO

[**efax**(1)](/efax/1.md), [**efax-gtk**(1)](/efax-gtk/1.md).

## AUTHOR

efax-gtk-socket-client was written by  Chris Vine \<chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk\>.

This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan \<kaplan@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).