Re: flexfax: Invalid dialing Command

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 01:29:18AM +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
> I manage to get some outgoing faxes sent in a batch job (perl script
> spooling multiple jobs) but then get these interminable "Invaild Dialling
> Commands".  Does not happen with once off faxes.

I see from your logs, later, that you're in Europe somewhere.  Is it
possible that your problem is a faulty implementation of one of those
Fax-Anti-Spam measures that some PTT's require in EC market modems?


> oh, that watchfax command - its quite cute viz.
> #!/BIN/bash
> ## /home/eric/bin/watchfax see progress of the fax logs
>  while :;do tail -f `ls -t /var/spool/fax/log/*|head -1`;done
> &&
> less `ls -t /var/spool/fax/log/*|head -1`

Ah.  Why the while loop, though?  I should think that the tail command
would be enough, given the backticked command within.

Cheers,
-- jra
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