Re: [hylafax-users] help needed in faxrcvd script

[George Bell <gbell5@cox.net>]

Sam Kalet wrote:
> Pine.GSO.4.21.0308060933360.17980-100000@woodchuck.conectiv.com">
> > Proposed Solution:
> >
> > FILENAME=`echo $FILE | sed -e 's/\.tif//'`
> > /usr/bin/tiff2ps -a $FILE | lpr -P BrotherFax -o natural-scaling=95 -o 
> > media=letter
> > /usr/bin/tiff2ps -a -O $SPOOL/$FILENAME.ps $SPOOL/$FILE
> > /usr/bin/ps2pdf $SPOOL/$FILENAME.ps $SPOOL/$FILENAME.pdf
> >     
>
> This looks good.  I would then add:
>
> FN2=`date +%Y%m%d-%T`
>     
Ahh, but that's not quite the same as the time the file was created...
> Pine.GSO.4.21.0308060933360.17980-100000@woodchuck.conectiv.com">
>
> mv $SPOOL/$FILENAME.pdf /home/public/FAX/$FN2.pdf
>
> This will yield a filename of 20030806-09:33:07.pdf for a file created now.
> The syntax of the format string to the date command is for Solaris - it might
> differ on your platform.
>
> Is this what you are looking for?  I would be concerned about two files being
> created during the same second (with the same name).  I suggest you preserve
> the original queue name in the filename somewhere since they are guaranteed to
> be unique.  So:
>
> mv $SPOOL/$FILENAME.pdf /home/public/FAX/$FN2-$FILENAME.pdf
>
> which yields a filename like 20030806-09:33:07-fax00009.pdf.  This also lets
> you correlate the fax with the logs easier, in case you need to debug a problem
> reported later.
>
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