Re: flexfax: faxrcvd script does not work

["Mark Wilson (P. Kay Associates Ltd.)" <percy@woodrow.demon.co.uk>]

Hi,

try using absolute pathnames in your script. I seem to recall that the
hylafax programs use "chroot". Also, put "set -x" at the top of the script
for debug output.

Best Regards,

Mark Wilson

P. Kay Associates Ltd.


On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Ertan Kucukoglu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have 4.0pl2 version of Hylafax. and FreeBSD 3.3 OS.
> 
> I tried to move incoming faxes from recvq dir to somewhere else. I had
> to write one program. That program checkes if the given directories are
> present. If not it creates them and returns 0 on success other number on
> fail. My directory tree likes that:
> 
> bash-2.03$ cd /var/spool/fax/bin/
> bash-2.03$ ls
> faxrcvd         mymkdir         pollrcvd        ps2fax.imp
> faxrcvd.bak     notify          ps2fax          tiff2fax
> faxrcvd~        notify.awk      ps2fax.dps      token
> mkcover         pcl2fax         ps2fax.gs       wedged
> 
> And I changed the script as below:
> bash-2.03$ cat faxrcvd
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> FILE="$1"
> 
> if [ -f $FILE ]; then
>   A=`date '+%Y/%m/%d'`
>   echo "Dizinler kontrol ediliyor..."
>   if bin/mymkdir fakslar `date '+%Y'` `date '+%m'` `date '+%d'`; then
> #    MYFILE=recvq/`token $FILE`
>     echo "Dosya adi: $FILE"
>     echo "Tasindigi yer: $A"
>     mv $FILE fakslar/$A/
>   fi
> fi
> bash-2.03$ 
> 
> The fakslar directory is a link to somewhere under my ftp directory.
> bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/spool/fax/fakslar
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  dialer  12 Jan  4 16:01 /var/spool/fax/fakslar ->
> /ftp/fakslar
> bash-2.03$ 
> 
> I send a fax to myself and it did not move the required files. If I run
> the script by hand it runs and does its job.
> 
> I replace the old sript file and put my script at the end of the
> original script. Tried to send a fax to myself and:
> 1. I receive 'fax received from' mail delivered.
> 2. My script does not work.
> 
> Any ideas about that?
> 
> -- 
> Ertan Kucukoglu
> ertank@ozlerplastik.com
> 
> P.S. Sorry for this slightly long mail and for my English.
>