Re: flexfax: failure: "pager job could not be completed before appointed deadline"

[Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de (Matthias Apitz)]

Paul Dugas wrote:
    Hi all,
    
    I've got a HylaFAX server running at a customers site to handle alpha-paging
    (no faxing yet).  I've been tweaking it for a while now trying to wring out
    the last of the issues they have.  The details:  hylafax-v4.0pl1 built
    locally with the Sun compiler, Sun SPARC 20, Solaris 2.5.1, MultiTech
    MT2834BR modems connect to a Digi PortServer-II via RealPort drivers.
    
    The specific problem du jour is that some pages are failing and returning
    the following via email:
    
    	Your pager job to 9,4046564342 could not be completed before the appointed
    deadline.
    
    	    ---- Unsent job status ----
    
    	Destination         	: 9,4046564342
    	JobID               	: 11136
    	GroupID             	: 11136
    	Sender              	: Nobody
    	Mailaddr            	: nobody@netra.atms.dot.state.ga.us
    	Submitted From      	: localhost
    	Status              	:   (nothing available)
    	Dialogs             	: 0 (exchanges with remote device)
    	Dials               	: 0 (consecutive failed calls to destination)
    	Calls               	: 0 (total phone calls placed)
    
    Where does the deadline come from?  This time the "Dialogs", "Dials", and
    "Calls" are all zero and I can't find a file in "logs" for "JOBID 11136".
    Sometimes the numbers are non-zero and I can find a log file.  It invariably
    indicates a BUSY signal detected or an invalid pager ID.  Every failed page,
    however, results in a "could not be completed before deadline" type of
    result.
    
    Anyone else getting these errors?  This system is being used to notify state
    DOT personnel of traffic incidents so the messages are _required_ to go
    through.  My ultimate goal is to have this thing retry forever if the paging
    central is busy or the load is high.  99% of the messages go to the same
    paging central.  Most of the time there are 6-10 recipients (PINs) specified
    for the same message.  There should not be an "appointed deadline".  How?
    
    Thanks in advance,

check the man page of hfaxd(1M) for KillTime and PriorityMap against
the priority flag of sendpage(1);

	matthias