faxrunq with many modems

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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 08:33:19PM +0000, Henning Jebsen wrote:
> gert@greenie.muc.de zum Thema "Re: faxrunq very broken on large queues":
> > Yep.  But faxrunq still doesn't handle multiple fax lines too well - it
> > doesn't know about "modems", it has to check every job whether it's
> > already locked, etc.
> I read the whole thread so far, especially using faxrunq with
> more than one modem. I would like to use the script anyway,
> simply because I'm not PERL-programmer for patching faxrunq*d*
> and made a lots of modifications to faxrunq.

Just a short note, since I replied with a longer mail before: you *really*
want faxrunqd.  Locking concurrent things in shell code isn't something
for the weak of heart, and I'm not going to really tackle that can of
worms.  Faxrunqd was designed and tested for heavy-duty use, faxrunq not.

gert
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