Re: flexfax: Two questions about receive handling

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Michael Blaustein wrote:

> 
> I have received several faxes and note the following unexpected behavior:
> 
> 1. Without my asking, these files get sent to the print queue.  They 
> print just fine.  Can I control this -- e.g., turn off printing, declare 
> when to print, etc.?

Sounds like someone has tweaked your /var/spool/fax/bin/faxrcvd
script. This file determines what to do with received faxes.

> 2.  faxcron reports to FAXMASTER that no faxes have been received since 
>   <whatever date I say>; but they have!  How can I teach faxcron where to 
> look, or whatever it needs to do?

Faxcron uses /usr/local/sbin/recvstats which in turn inspects xferlog
to determine received faxes. Make sure xferlog exists in
/var/spool/fax/etc and has usable data in it.
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