Handling faxes
XFAX - User’s Guide 4.3a
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6.5 Printing a fax
Faxes that lie in a queue for outgoing faxes plus received faxes can be printed out
on an HP Laserjet compatible printer. The command that is used is faxprint with
the fax’s ID or a file name as an argument. The fax’s ID can be obtained by
means of the command faxq.
For example:
# faxprint -d LASER 28
in order to print out a fax with ID 28 on the printer LASER, or
# faxprint -d hplj /usr/spool/fax/D.00023
in order to print out the fax file D.00023 on the printer hplj.
Normally, the UNIX command lp is used for printing and the standard printer in
the operativing system. To change this the keywords LP, LP_PRINT_OPTION
and DEFAULT_PRINTER in the configuration file can be used.
6.6 Listing faxes in a particular directory
Faxes that it has not been possible to transmit after the maximum number of
attempts specified will be, if NO_ERROR_SAVE has not been defined, moved
to the directory Fax under the home directory of the user who placed the fax in
the queue. In order to list the faxes that are in this, or some other directory, the
parameter -d is used to faxq. When this parameter is used alone, files in
$HOME/Fax are shown. E.g.:
# faxq -d
Directory /Fax
ID
Fax number
Sec Try Time
LC
User
Pgs
14
55576861
2
3 11:01 19980601 BUSY stenor
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The command searches for files which have a name beginning with S. and R.
and which are recognized as XFAX files. The information that is listed includes
the recipient’s fax number, the time when the fax was first placed in the queue
plus the name of the user who placed the fax in the queue.
6.7 Routine maintenance
When XFAX is set up in accordance with requirements and started, the system
requires very little maintenance. It can be worth keeping an eye on the size of the
statistics file to see that there is no old data and control files remaining in
SPOOLDIR. If you run mail integration, there is a debug trigger which creates
log files under /tmp or ETCDIR. You will not want to have these files remaining
if you run in production.
It is appropriate to set up a job for “cron” which is run each night or similar.
Before clearing out the statistics files you can print out the data if you think you
might have use for it.
