Status of fax delivery

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Hi,

Chris Cotter wrote:
> Is there any way to find out the status of a fax as it is being
> delivered. I would like to monitor fax delivery and return messages
> like Dialing, Connected, Sending Page, Delivered, etc. from a shell
> script. Is this possible? With Hylafax a program called "faxwatch"
> will monitor a fax job and return this type of information. Is there
> anything similar with mgetty+sendfax?

"faxq" will show you, or you could just look at the "JOB" files in
/var/spool/fax/outgoing/<job-id>/JOB - it contains a full trace of
all events. As soon as this file disappears, the job is done.

gert

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