Cost sheduling

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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Sascha Ziemann wrote:
> is anybody working on a cost sheduling feature for mgetty like those
> in Tobits Faxware?
> 
> For those who do not know how it works: Each facsimile has maximum
> delay time attribute:
> 
>   - sending at once 
>   - sending during the next 4 hours
>   - sending during the next 8 hours
>   - sending during the next week
> 
> Faxware analyses the target number and calculates the cheapest time to
> send the facsimile.

No - right now, you have to tell faxspool "send at 18:00".  This avoids
LOTS of trouble, and usually users just need "now" or "some time later
when it's cheap" (meaning "after 18:00") - and whether some time is
"cheap" or not is so different between countries where mgetty is in use
that it would be *really* hard to implement that... - you'd need a fully
configurable set of rules.

It is doable, but I do not consider it worth the effort - just use
"faxspool -t 18:00".

> Is there somewhere a reference documentation of the JOB files?

"man faxqueue"  (which is in "see also" of "man faxspool"...)

> Is it wrong when I say, that the fuxrunq ist not very clever and that
> it would be nice to have something more flexible, a real spooling
> server like that of Hylafax?

faxrunq was never meant to be "clever" - it's meant to be *portable*.  No
C++, no GNU AWK, no PERL, no BASH, no nothing but /bin/sh.

If you want clever scheduling (that's not "spooling", btw, but
"scheduling" - spooling is the easy part, just drop the job somewhere...)
use faxrunq*d*.  It handles time scheduling, priorities, multiple modems
in parallel, job combining, policy routing ("send *this* job over *that*
modem"), number rewriting ("if the fax is for 08932356xxx, send to xxx,
and do not dial "0W" before it - it's inhouse"), etc.

gert
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