Re: flexfax: pollrecvd & running scripts for every incoming fax...

[Darrell Berry <darrell@ku24.com>]

ok, solved...its just a matter of editing faxrecvd...thank god for good
design!

as usual with open source stuff, its done so it can be built on...i now
have exactly what i want...beausitful PDF faxes automatically
distributed...thank you all for you kind assistance


Darrell Berry wrote:
> 
> i'm still pursuing my mail-delivery of pdf-formatted faxes, and am now
> looking at how to schedule the checking and sending...basically what i
> want to do is similar to the fucntion of bin/pollrecd...in fact
> pollrecvd goes one furth and reports back on partically recieved faxes,
> which is great...hoewver i don't quite understand what calls
> pollrecd...is it only run when a poll command is issued manually?
> 
> if so, is there a server-side stub somewhere where a script can be caled
> EVERY TIME a fax is received? Or do I have to write a cron job that
> looks at the seqf in log/ and does it itself...and if so, how do i link
> the cxxxxxxx files to actual tif files in recvq?
> 
> so many questions...sorry!
> 
> all i realy want to do, is run something like pollrecvq everytime a fax
> (or partial fax) comes in, sensibly linking the info form the log with
> the tif file (or pdf file, as it will be), and mail it off to a central
> fax-distribution point...
> 
> (does any of this make sense?!)
> 
> thnx