faxspool(1) / faxqueue(5): please comment (fwd)

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Hi,

Uwe Fuerst wrote:
> Gert Doering wrote:
> > Basically I thought of changing the format to
> > 
> > alias<whitespace>phone<whitespace>verbose_to
> > 
> > - easy, except the fact that "verbose_to" may contain whitespace itself
> > ("uwe<tab>099013692<tab>Uwe S. Fuerst").
> 
> If you use the "alias<whitespace>phone<whitespace>verbose_to" form you could
> easily parse the file with awk. alias=$1, phone=$2 and verbose_to=<the_rest>.

That's exactly what I did when I implemented it yesterday ;-)

[...]
> [fax.allow / fax.deny both there - only fax.allow used]

> That's right. I just checked my "crontab" man page.

Ok, fine.

> > > >        When  a  job cannot be sent in five tries, the JOB file is
> > > >        renamed to JOB.suspended.  To re-queue  this  job,  rename
> > > >        the JOB file back and remove all the "Status" lines in it.
> > > 
> > > This could be done by a yet to be written script faxreq(1) :-)
> > 
> > I include the code line to do it in the mail - so you can just cut'n paste
> > the command to another window and execute it there... ;-)
> 
> That's perfectly ok with me, but think of the poor console users, too.
> They usually don't have any cut'n paste facilitiy :-)

Yes, sure - but then, it's only one "cd" and one "mv" command, so it
should not be too difficult - and in addition, one could always load the
mail into "vi" and
:.,.+1 !
the command lines...

gert

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Ok, Ihr habt gewonnen, hier ist eine neue signature...

Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-3243328                         gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de