How and how often to run faxrunq

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

hi,

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 01:24:55PM -0700, Chris Worley wrote:
> > > 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".
> 
> Any way to have it more tightly follow faxes incoming into the outgoing
> directory?  Would it be a system burden to run an inittab script that
> would continuously run "faxrunq", sleeping for a few seconds between
> runs?

Yep.  If you want such behaviour, use faxrunqd.

(And always remember that this is designed for systems with lots of fax
traffic and it was designed in a way to burden the system as lightly as
possible - thus, no continous loops, no "look ever 5 seconds", etc.)

[..]
> > gert@greenie$ strings mgetty |grep new_fax
> > 
> 
> Bingo! Suse keeps it in /usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/new_fax, not where the
> configuration files are kept.

Well, it's not a config file :) - it's a program...

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de