flexfax: **DILEMMA**

["Mr. Arlington Hewes" <tpcadmin@info.tpc.int>]

Okay, here's the situation. About 4000 jobs in the queue, one modem. Jobs were 
queued with the default killtime of one day, and now they're all starting to 
expire.

faxq's like a runaway train now though . . . funny to think I was complaining 
about it being slow.

You see, the modem's wedged . . . so there's no sending going on. All faxq has 
to do is run the queue, expiring jobs - and it's extremely good at it today.

Here I sit, trying to `faxalter -k "now plus 1000000000000000 days" 123 124 
125 etc but faxq just refuses to list to me much . . . processing of my 
faxalter is soooooo slow that I MIGHT be able to save one for every 10 it 
expires.

Of course how to keep ahead of it in terms of JIDS?

The catch-22 is that I must have faxq running to faxalter the jobs. But if I 
do, it outraces me.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

-Darren