Re: [hylafax-users] Timeout error

[Matthias Reich <rei@hagos.de>]

Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2001 17:26 schrieb Claus Bendtsen:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Matthias Reich wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2001 16:16 schrieb Claus Bendtsen:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use hylafax for sending a couple of hundred faxes.
> > > However - the jobs expire after about 3 hours and the uncompleted (or
> > > rather unattempted) faxes bounce. I've tried using the killtime
> > > parameter (in hfaxd.conf as KillTime: "now +72 hours") without success
> > > - but as I understand it from the documentation the killtime only
> > > applies to jobs that has been attempted. How do I increase the timeout?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Claus
> >
> > Hi Claus,
> >
> > as far as I understand the doc the killtime is only applied to jobs that
> > are *NOT YET* in the queue.
> > So, when you changed KillTime in hfaxd.conf every job submitted
> > thereafter will have the assigned killtime.
> >
> > (p.s. I do not exactly know, if you have to restart hylfax after changing
> > the killtime parameter)
>
> Yes - I've both restarted and resubmitted the jobs - with no change in
> behaviour. This makes me believe that the killtime is not the right
> parameter. From the manual:
>
> Kill the job if it does not complete in the indicated time.  As for the -a
> option, the time is specifed using notation compatible with at(1).  Note
> that the time is relative to the time of the initial transmission attempt.
> The default kill time is ``now + 3 hours'' (three hours from the time the
> job is first processed).  To retry for an hour, ``now +1 hour'' could be
> used.
>
> So how is "initial transmission attempt" defined? I believe that my jobs
> expire before the initial transmission attempt.
>
> > HIH
> >
> > hilsner fra tyskland
>
> I lige måde
>
> > matthias
> >
> > --
> > HAGOS eG                 phone: +49 711 7880592
> > Matthias Reich             fax: +49 711 7880599
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> > Germany
>
> --
> Claus
>
hi igen claus,

put the parameter in the hyla.conf file *NOT the hfaxd.conf

sorry I mixed that up, the parameter has to be in hyla.conf
... sometimes its better to have a closer look at the own 
installation
HIH

vi ses
matthias


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