Re: [hylafax-users] Anomoly with use of -a "HH:MM + n minutes"

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.05.01 21:07 Hugh Esco wrote:
> Hey folks:
>
> Before I went to dinner this evening, I que'd up about two hundred
> faxes
> out of a perl script I'm developing.  I have had lots of jobs in my
> previous tests bomb out with errors like:  Kill time expired.  So this
> evening as I was about to put out this next fax, I added the following
> code to my developing script.
>
> $count = $count + 1;
> $delay = ($count * 2);
> $starttime = "\"$time + $delay minutes \"";
> my $SENDFAX = "sendfax -a $starttime -f \"";
> 	etc., etc.

I would suggest altering the kill time rather than altering the send 
time.

> It started running and I went to eat.  When I returned it was awfully
> quiet here.  Eighty-one jobs had successfully or unsuccessfully
> completed.  And faxstat -s was giving me reports that start out
> like this:
>
> 575 127 P  hesco 1-706-613-7123  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
> 576 127 P  hesco 1-706-797-3284  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
> 577 127 P  hesco 1-706.738.9166  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
> 578 127 P  hesco 1-745-4499      0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
> 579 127 P  hesco 1-770-          0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
> <snip>
>
> Saying it would be abandoning this job until 9:00 pm tomorrow and not
> finishing it until Monday morning.
>
> The final job it que'd read:
>
> sendfax -a "20:23 + 410 minutes " -f "hesco@xxxxxxxxxx" -R -n -d " The
> Brunswick News@1-912-264-4973" /home/hesco/prsrls.pdf
> /home/hesco/prsrls2.pdf
>
> or a seven hour delay before it was scheduled to start, meaning it
> should complete around 3:00 am Sunday morning.
>
> What is up with this 18 hour additional delay?  Any ideas?

Well, I don't know where you're getting $time from, but the scheduler 
assumes you want to send it at the next occurrence of the -a 
specification, not one in the past.  So if you send a job utilizing 
"20:23:00" and the time is now "20:23:01" then the scheduler will 
assume that you mean tomorrow.  Add 410 minutes (7 hours) to that, and 
you end up with Monday morning at 3AM.

Lee.

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