fax ID configuration

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Hi,

Mate Wierdl wrote:
> I installed mgetty/sendfax from the .rpm package for my RedHat Linux
> system. When I send a fax, the recipient gets
> 
> 	FAX FROM: Mate Wierdl 49 89 xxxxxxx TO: [...]
> 
> The problem is that the fax id `49 89 xxxxxxx' is not correct, of
> course. I have this in my faxheader file:
> 
> 	 FAX FROM: @N@ @ID@  TO: @T@ PAGE: @P@ OF @M@ 
> 
> and in mgetty.config and sendfax.config, I have 
> 
> 	# set the local fax station id
> 	fax-id 901 363 25 57 
> 
> 	# which fax number to transmit to the receiving station
> 	fax-id 901 363 25 57 
> 
> respectively. Let me remark that I sent the fax by doing
> 	faxspool
> 	faxrunq
> on an ascii test file. 

You have to make sure that "sendfax.config" is readable for the person
running "faxspool". By default, it's only root-readable, so faxspool will
use the ID string that was specified in "policy.h" at compile-time. (You
can easily change it in the faxspool script, though - just search for xxxx).

> To sum up, it appears that the compiled in default ID is used instead
> of the one in the runtime config files. This is not what I expected,
> but maybe the `@ID@' token is deliberately configured to use the
> compile time default. 

It will use the runtime config file, if that file can be accessed. If not,
it falls back to the compile time statement.

gert

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