Re: [hylafax-users] Ubuntufax

["Graham Chiu" <compkarori@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, FaxDispatch doesn't seem to be calling my script .. so I will
try something else.

As for the samba share, it seems that the received fax's file
attributes are not changed until the file is complete, so no need to
worry about grabbing an incomplete file.

But since the faxserver may be remote from the database, I will likely
use ftp instead to grab the incoming faxes.

On 1/25/07, A J Stiles <hylafax_resp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:55, Graham Chiu wrote:
> Why not use your FaxDispatch script to  (call up a simple Perl / Python / PHP
> script to)  write the files straight into the database, instead of depositing
> them in a Samba share and expecting Windows to deal with them?  All you will
> need is the appropriate client library bindings for your favourite scripting
> language to talk to your database.
>
> This way as well, you avoid the potential for corruption which exists if the
> Windows end tries to recover a file which hasn't finished being written yet.
> (Unix creates a directory entry as soon as the file is opened for writing,
> and any other process with "r" on the file and "x" on the directory can see
> the file from then on.  Otherwise, `tail -f`would never be able to work!  If
> you copy a big file, you can actually watch its size increasing by repeatedly
> typing `ls -l` in another terminal.)  If you still insist to do it
> arse-backwards, have the Windows end stat the file several times, a few
> seconds apart, to make sure it isn't still growing before retrieving it.
>
> --
> AJS
>
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