[hylafax-users] notify.awk to attach pdf for failed faxes not working

[Anthony Diak <anthonyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was looking around and found a notify.awk that supposedly was to 
attach a pdf of the fax when it notifies of a failure (it also does a 
backup of all faxes in  pdf format).  I send a fax to a number that I 
knew would be continuously busy so that the fax would fail and 
hopefully get a pdf in my email with the fax I submitted.  Nothing 
happened after my first attempt, and this is how I sent the fax:


sendfax -n -m -f "email@xxxxxxxxxx" -D -i "TEST NOTIFY.AWK" -T 1 -d 
13309669887 /etc/hosts

I got an email saying the fax failed as normal, but nothing else.  I 
thought that perhaps the script had an error in it somewhere, perhaps 
doing ps2pdf or something, so I changed the script to output to /log (a 
777'd file) to see what was going on, and sent another test fax.  
Nothing appeared in /log so thats where I'm stuck.  Is there a step 
that I am missing to set this up?  I've never really tried to do 
anything like this with hylafax, and its not mission critical, it'd 
just be nice for having to manually re-fax some things to be able to 
fax the attached document.

I noticed one thing though, in the man page for notify, I saw this:

> NOTES
>        The behavior of notify is intended to be customizable via the 
> etc/FaxNotify script, if present.  FaxNotify is sourced after the 
> q-file is parsed and all default values  are  preset.


Is this true? if it is, I cannot seem to find anything else about it 
(sample config files, etc) anywhere.

What step am I missing?  I know this is doable, and have seen several 
things in the list about this, but I never saw a formal HOWTO anywhere 
on this (I looked around for a little bit), and was wondering if 
someone could help me out.

Attached is the notify.awk script that I have in place.

Thanks,

Anthony...

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