faxrunqd

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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 11:29:31PM +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> i dont know exactly how this had come...
> 
> i fiddled around with faxrunqd to get rid of that annoying warning
> message from perl (which says: you probably ment system instead of exec)

The easy fix is: upgrade to a more recent version, this warning is gone
since about two months ago.  Or install the fix that Frank Cringle has
posted here...

> and finally i screwed up faxrunqd completely. so i reinstalled it from
> the distribution and then had a quite strange situation: all the
> suspenden jobs would not be requed correctly by issuing a faxq -r
> 
> the reason: the f?.g3 files had allready changed to f?.g3.done allthough
> thei had not been sent.
> 	i had to mv all of them back to their original name to get em sent
> 
> dosent really hurt, but i think it could be a hint to a conceptual
> error...?

*IF* the file has been renamed to "f*.g3.done", it *HAS* been sent
successfully.  The only program that EVER renames files is sendfax, and
sendfax only does it if it gets an "OK, page received fine" from the
remote machine.

It's very well possible that you FUBARed faxrunqd enough so that it didn't
correctly read sendfax' return code, and assumed that things have failed
(if you use "system" instead of "exec", this is exactly what will happen -
faxrunqd will assume that every fax has failed).

gert
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