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Re: [hylafax-users] Anomoly with use of -a "HH:MM + n minutes"



On 2004.05.01 21:07 Hugh Esco wrote:
Hey folks:

Before I went to dinner this evening, I que'd up about two hundred
faxes
out of a perl script I'm developing.  I have had lots of jobs in my
previous tests bomb out with errors like:  Kill time expired.  So this
evening as I was about to put out this next fax, I added the following
code to my developing script.

$count = $count + 1;
$delay = ($count * 2);
$starttime = "\"$time + $delay minutes \"";
my $SENDFAX = "sendfax -a $starttime -f \"";
	etc., etc.

I would suggest altering the kill time rather than altering the send time.


It started running and I went to eat.  When I returned it was awfully
quiet here.  Eighty-one jobs had successfully or unsuccessfully
completed.  And faxstat -s was giving me reports that start out
like this:

575 127 P  hesco 1-706-613-7123  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
576 127 P  hesco 1-706-797-3284  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
577 127 P  hesco 1-706.738.9166  0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
578 127 P  hesco 1-745-4499      0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
579 127 P  hesco 1-770-          0:0   0:12 Sun09PM
<snip>

Saying it would be abandoning this job until 9:00 pm tomorrow and not
finishing it until Monday morning.

The final job it que'd read:

sendfax -a "20:23 + 410 minutes " -f "hesco@xxxxxxxxxx" -R -n -d " The
Brunswick News@1-912-264-4973" /home/hesco/prsrls.pdf
/home/hesco/prsrls2.pdf

or a seven hour delay before it was scheduled to start, meaning it
should complete around 3:00 am Sunday morning.

What is up with this 18 hour additional delay? Any ideas?

Well, I don't know where you're getting $time from, but the scheduler assumes you want to send it at the next occurrence of the -a specification, not one in the past. So if you send a job utilizing "20:23:00" and the time is now "20:23:01" then the scheduler will assume that you mean tomorrow. Add 410 minutes (7 hours) to that, and you end up with Monday morning at 3AM.


Lee.

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