EXIT STATUS OF MGETTY

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Hi,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> Without modifying faxspool and faxrunq, you would have to pipe the
> stdout of these scripts thru a parser to determine if the succeded or
> not. This is not usually as bad as it sounds. Of course, exit codes
> would be nice. :-)

For *faxspool*, there is a meaningful way to define "success" or 
"failure" -- and thus, faxspool uses proper exit codes.

Only for faxrunq, it's unclear what "failure" would mean ("all faxes
failed"? "one out of the queue failed"? "more than 50 per cent failed"?),
thus it will only return a non-zero exit code on invocation or system
fatal errors.

gert

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