Re: [hylafax-users] Newbie requests answers on maintainance

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 11:32 PM 7/24/01 -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I'm a new user of HylaFAX.  I set up v4.1 a few days ago on my RedHat v7.1 
>system (HylaFAX installed from an RPM) and it seems to be running well.  It 
>is intended, at least for now, to be a receive-only fax server.  
>
>Because I want this setup to be as maintainance-free as possible (this 
>server is off-site) I am particularly interested in automated handling of 
>the fax files.  Mind if I ask a few questions regarding these topics?  
>
>In terms of handling incoming faxes, I want the fax to be printed and the 
>user notified.  That's working great.  I also want to receive a daily 
>summary of faxes received.  That too is working well.  But what to do with 
>the fax files (cXXXXXXXX.tif) themselves?  Ideally I would like them to 
>remain in the receive directory for n days, then be deleted.  Reading the 
>doc for faxqclean, it seems that the description is geared to the handling 
>of sent faxes rather than those that were received.  
>
>Q1: What commands and parameters should I specify to delete faxes (*tif 
>files and corresponding log entries) that are n days old?

Use faxqclean.  If you used the HylaFAX-4.1 RPM, then this is already set
up on your system to flush logs once per month.  I think that it also
cleans doneq.  I don't think that it touches recvq.

>HylaFAX writes what I consider to be a lot of text to the system log.  I 
>am aware (yes, some people do read the FAQ) that I can reconfigure the 
>syslog daemon to redirect this output to a file.
>
>Q2: Can I direct HylaFAX's logging to a file other than the sytem log 
>without modifying the syslog daemon?

Not that I'm aware of.  HylaFAX is simply using the system's logging
mechanism.  You can reduce the level of syslog logging, though, by reducing
the ServerTracing config value.

>My modem, a USR Sportster 28.8, is unreliable in Class2.0 mode, but works 
>fine as a Class1 device.

Yes, that's normal for USR Sportsters.

>Q3:  What functionality, if any, am I losing by using the older Class1 
>protocol?

None, in fact some of us prefer Class 1 to Class 2/2.0 anyway (I see it as
an open-source protocol - you can't do much about programming the Class 2
firmware).

>I'm a little confused about the purpose of the ~/hylafax/archive 
>directory.  The doc on faxqclean refers to moving sent faxes to it, but it 
>is not mention as having a role in the handling of received faxs.

It's dysfunctional.  See:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96

>Q4:  Given that my use of HylaFAX is as a receive-only server, do I need 
>to concern myself with the use of the archive directory?

No, because the archive directory won't get used unless you make it get
used somehow.

Lee

(What was up with the repetition?  Cut-n-paste problems?)



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