EXIT STATUS OF MGETTY

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Hi,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
> The solution for faxrunq is to have a .forward file in ~faxmaster/
> that actually reads and parses the email the daemon sends to determine
> success of failure for each job. Of course, you couldn't actually
> wait for this to occur, as it takes an indeterminate, but usually
> rather long, time.

Oh, for newer versions of faxrunq, the sytem administrator can specify
*programs* to run after successful completition or "final failure" of a
fax job... (via faxrunq.config!).

But be warned: those programs will be run as root, so be careful what
you install!

> I think the original author was abusing faxrunq by invoking it
> manually instead of via a crontab entry, and wanted to know whether a
> single fax was sent or not. Of course, this eliminates any ability to
> retry on a busy number the next cron activation, since there is none.
> 
> In other words: faxrunq -- use as directed.

My words :)

gert
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