Re: [hylafax-users] FTP to FAX

["Steven Totaro" <stotaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:29 PM
> To: Steven Totaro
> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] FTP to FAX
> 
> Steven Totaro wrote:
> 
> >
> > I would like to know if anyone has a script that watches a directory
> > (on the HylaFax Server) for PDF files then calls sendfax to send the
> fax?
> >
> 
> I've done this kind of thing numerous times.  Each implementation has
> been proprietary, but really, it's a snap to do.  I generally have
cron
> just run the script every minute which scans the directory for fax
files
> and faxes them if there are.  I would generally recommend being
cautious
> about "locking" (i.e. with lockfiles) files and moving them out of the
> way when they're in-progress so that if it runs long the next cron job
> won't try faxing the same file.  And if you're in control of the
> ftp-ing, generating that lockfile before uploading is a smart thing,
> too.  The lockfile generally stores the PID, so the script should know
> if it owns the lockfile or not.
> 
> The sending information is generally part of the specially-formatted
> filename, but you can also store that inside the PDF with PDF tags of
> sorts.
> 
> Lee.

Yeah, I figured I would do exactly what you outlined with the exception
of moving the file from and FTP folder to a FAX folder once the FTP put
was completed so I would not have to worry about locks for the FTP
stuff.

Too bad your scripts are proprietary, I am not a coder so it will take
me a significant amount of time to get this working.  If there was a
script with some or all of the functionality I need, I could modify it
quite easily, I just am not good at starting from an empty slate.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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