Juju

Today I setup a shared Fax modem on our OSX Server. Attached a USB modem and it recognized it just fine. Sending faxes was working great, but I couldn't get it to receive. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn't recognize that the phone line was ringing. According to Google a few other people had the same problem, but there were no solutions. So I dug around and found the problem. My modem was showing up as /dev/tty.usbmodem246802461. However, OSX expects it to be at /dev/tty.usbmodem. I couldn't find anywhere to configure it. I tried creating a symlink to it, but that didn't work. So what I ended up doing was modifying /usr/bin/fax and changing lines 37-38 from:

DEV=cu.usbmodem
DEVANSWER=tty.usbmodem

To:

DEV=cu.usbmodem246802461
DEVANSWER=tty.usbmodem246802461

Then killed the efax process and now it works. WTF Apple?