server-client and mgetty+sendfax

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Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> schrieb:

> If all machines are Unix machines, using NFS for /var/spool/fax/ works
> pretty well (locking of the sequence and JOB files is done using hard 
> links, which works over NFS, and thus it's even possible to queue faxes on
> different machines at the same time).

> If you want to do this, you have to install the necessary tools (faxspool,
> ghostscript, ...) on all client machines, yes.  "sendfax" itself only runs
> on the "modem server".

> Future development will result in a network fax client/server, but I
> didn't find time to do that yet.  Other people are working on an
> Hylafax-compatible server, so that Hylafax network clients can be used
> with mgetty...

Thank you for the idea.

Bye

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