faxrunqd problem

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Hi,

On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:14:59PM -0800, Devin Redlich wrote:
> Forgive me, my Perl is weak.
> 
> I'm using faxrunqd (v. 1.35, run from init) to process my outgoing fax
> queue.  I have one little problem when it comes to re-queuing faxes.
> 
> I've done a little demo of my problem.  I send a fax which fails due to a
> wrong phone number.  I go into the ougoing/F001447 directory, fix the
> number in JOB.suspended, and mv JOB.suspended JOB.  However, the job never
> gets sent.  I can queue up a new job, and it'll be processed, but the old
> job remains.  See below.

touch the file $outgoing/.queue_changed, otherwise it will take up to
an hour until faxrunqd will completely re-read the fax queue.

Or just use "faxq -r" to do the re-queueing.

> Now, I can run faxq and see my job is waiting:
> 
> oscar:devin> faxq
> F001447/JOB: queued by devin. 1 page(s) to 2055191. pri=6.
> 
> If I kill faxrunqd (and init restarts it), the job will be processed right
> away.

Sure.  Up to that point, faxrunqd *knows* that the job has failed, and
doesn't look at the disk file at all (for load optimization).  Once
per hour, it will forget everything, and re-read all from disk, or if
the file ".queue-changed" exists.

gert
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