[hylafax-users] well, i THOUGHT it was simple - bad exit status message

[David Camm <dcamm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm a hylafax newbie trying to develop what i thought was a simple application 
for a customer. all the system needs to do is receive faxes, translate the faxes 
into pdf files and dump the pdfs into a samba-shared directory so that users on 
windows systems on the network can view them. i've run into two problems:

1. i looked at faxrcvd and saw WAY too much code for what i needed, so i edited 
the script into something much smaller. i can send faxes to the machine, and 
they are received without a problem.  HOWEVER, not being a shell programmer, 
there were things i needed to do upon receipt - like renaming the incoming fax 
file, etc. so i translated faxrcvd into perl. the perl script is suid and sgid 
to uucp. it runs when i execute it as root from the command line - reads a file 
in recvq, translates it to pdf and puts it into the proper directory. HOWEVER, 
when executed by faxgetty during a receive it fails with the dreaded:

Bad exit status 01000 for 'bin/faxrcvd "recvq/fax000000035.tif" "ttyS0" 
"000000036" "" "" ""'

the last line of the script is exit (0);

i don't think it's a permissions problem - otherwise it wouldn't run from the 
commandline.

can anyone shed some light on what might be wrong?

2. i'd like to do a table lookup on CIDNAME and/or CIDNUMBER so that the 
resulting pdf file can be named something reasonable, but these parameters 
aren't being passed to faxrcvd as part of the call from faxgetty (as shown 
above) - altho the shell script seems to expect them. how can i get these passed 
to faxrcvd?

thanks in advance.....

david camm
advanced web systems
keller, tx
www.advwebsys.com


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