How and how often to run faxrunq

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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 12:42:28PM -0700, Chris Worley wrote:
> > > When an incoming job is rec'd, how is "faxrunq" supposed to be run.  It
> > > didn't seem to be setup automatically.  It should be run, somehow, as
> > > soon as a file appears in the incoming directory.
> > faxrunq is for outgoing jobs.
> 
> I'm sorry... I did mean outgoing jobs.  How should faxrunq get
> triggered?

Once by hand, if you want so, or (recommended) in regular intervals by
"cron".

> > For incoming jobs, use "new_fax", it will be run as soon as the last page
> > has been received (using the path name specified in "policy.h").
> 
> That brings up another question.  I'm using the mgetty installed in SuSE
> 5.3.  It makes an /etc/mgetty+sendfax directory for the configuration
> files.  I put my new_fax script in their, but it didn't seem to work.  I
> don't know how SuSE compiled their mgetty... so I don't know what was in
> their policy.h.  

Do a "strings" on the mgetty binary and search for new_fax, that should
help:

gert@greenie$ strings mgetty |grep new_fax
/usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/new_fax

> Is there a way to override the location of new_fax from
> one of the configuration files?

Not yet.

gert
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