Re: [hylafax-users] DID once again

[Yan Seiner <yan@cardinalengineering.com>]

Lee:

I am doing exactly as you say (and, glad to say, I figured it out on my
own - I guess great minds think alike ;-).

I hacked faxgetty rather crudely to write the CID and DNIS info into the
log files.

I also posted later about a couple of the other things that have to be
done.  I don't mind testing from cvs at this point.  I may have to have
drop-dead reliable faxing in a few weeks if a big deal I am working on
comes together, but until then, I can always switch everyone over to the
manual fax.

Let me know what I need to be doing.  I'm happy to work with you.  Keep
in mind that my knowledge of c++ is miniscule to non-existent.

I've also found that there are actually three numbers that bear
watching:

the number the calling fax identifies itself as, CID, and DNIS.  The
faxrcvd script should be able to intelligently handle those, and
refax/print/email (in specified format, ps/pdf/tiff as a
minimum)/ftp/etc based on those numbers and according to some file.

I started work on a faxroute.conf that tells faxrcvd how to dispose of a
fax; basically it now has three columns: DNIS, email, printer.  Very
limited, but all I need at this point.  It really needs to expand to
handle all of the above, as well as include support for custom handling
in a "pluggable" manner.

--Yan

Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> At 02:54 PM 11/18/01 -0500, Yan Seiner wrote:
> >I'm starting to play with DID - routing faxes based on called number ID
> >(DNIS).
> >
> >My modem reports CID and DNIS.  Here's what's in /var/log/messages:
> >
> >Nov 18 15:25:41 pythia FaxGetty[2675]: --> [4:RING]
> >Nov 18 15:25:46 pythia FaxGetty[2675]: --> [12:NDID=5213011]
> >Nov 18 15:25:46 pythia FaxGetty[2675]: --> [15:NMBR=8435214934]
> >Nov 18 15:25:47 pythia FaxGetty[2675]: --> [4:RING]
> >
> >
> >I will have a total 8 fax lines; I can't rely on scanning
> >/var/log/messages for this stuff.  It does not appear in any of the
> >hylafax logs, which start with the ATA command.
> >
> >How do I get this stuff into /var/spool/hylafax/log?  Or give it to
> >notify?
> >
> >There is no documentation (that I've found) on what hylafax does with
> >CIDName and CIDNumber.
> 
> Well, there are a couple of ways that this could be handled.  You could
> change CIDName and CIDNumber to be "NDID=" and "NMBR=" respectively, then
> the CID and DNIS both come through HylaFAX's existing CID handling.  If
> you're using CVS HylaFAX, then the the number is pumped to faxgetty as a
> fifth parameter, and you can use that for routing via FaxDispatch.
> 
> It's also possible to follow the same pattern as CID for DID in the code
> (adding code to faxgetty) to acheive this.  The entire trick is that the
> modem *must* report this to faxgetty as you show yours doing.
> 
> In your case, however, it should be easier just to redefine CID with the
> existing mechanisms to suit your CID/DNIS needs.
> 
> Lee.



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