Re: [hylafax-users] Hyla.conf example and scheduling of jobs

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thursday, August 24, 2000, at 11:13:52 AM, Marc Rassbach wrote:
> I ve spent some time searching the list and noticed
> the 1997 comment that no hyla.conf example existed. 
> Does anyone have an example of this file?

hyla.conf is a configuration file specifically for the unix *clients*
(sendfax, et al).  It's actually rarely necessary to set one up; the
only reason I've ever had to was to change the JobFmt string for
faxstat.

> My user has a level of expectation based on how the
> SCO digifax product works.  He's come to accept that
> the differences between the two programs are not a
> negative.  (And, I didn t need to beat him with a clue
> stick)

Wow.  You're a lucky guy.  :-)

> There is an option to tell a job waiting in the queue
> to send immediately. And the job scheduling was based
> on a table.  The table is  wait this long between
> errors  as opposed to  wait this long for this type of
> error  that hylafax uses.  The table could look like
> this:
> 0,0,0,1,1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20,30,45,60
> (translation: On error keep re-trying quickly, then
> slow up the retries)                    

> 1) mention was made of a  resubmit/delete  methodology
> to force a job to immediately re-send with the given
> framework.  Correct?

faxalter -p jobid will 'poke' a job back, removing the delay time.
I'm not sure where the job lands in the queue of 'current' jobs,
though.  Anyone?

> (If anyone has thought about a change to the server
> for supporting a re-send fax now command, lets talk
> off this list.  It looks like my client is willing to
> pay me to implement such a feature, and I'd be happy
> to submit a patch back)

Oops.  Sorry.  :-)

> 2) it was mentioned to  implement the table driven
> retry would be a 'simple' code change .  Was that ever
> done, and I just missed it in the documentation? 

No, so far as I can see, the retry time differs based on the sort of
error in sending (no answer, job abort, etc), but doesn't scale up.

Cheers,
-- jra
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