FW: flexfax: Sending many Faxes

["Ken Cornetet" <kcornet@kimball.com>]

I don't know if this if your problem. Are you trying to send many pages in
one fax by passing many file names to "sendfax"?

Hylafax has a long standing "bug" in that it uses the mkstemp(3C), which
calls mktemp(3C) to generate temporary files. I have found that mktemp fails
after a relatively short number of calls from one process. On HP-UX (10.20)
it fails after 26 times (if memory serves). On RedHat 5.2 Linux, it fails
after 40 calls.

The result is that "sendfax" causes a temp file to be created on the fax
server for every file it is passed. If you pass more files to sendfax than
mktemp can handle, things break.

I sent Sam L. a note about this way back in the version 3 days, but he
replied that he considered this a limitation of the operating system, and
not a hylafax bug, so he was not going to address it. Is it a bug? The
mkstemp man page doesn't specificly say you can only call it a limited
number of times, but then it doesn't claim unlimited calls either.

I have have written a custom mkstemp that can be called an almost unlimited
number of times, if anyone would like it. It fixed my problems...

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]
On Behalf Of Jürgen Meurer
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 3:03 PM
To: flexfax@sgi.com
Subject: flexfax: Sending many Faxes


Hello,

we use Hylafax comming with SUSE 6.0 and ELSA 33,6 Modem.
If we send many fax to Hylafax we have the problem that about 70 faxes
were send and at the rest we get only the message no carrier.

Hase anyone the same problem or can help us ?

cu Juergen