Re: [hylafax-users] Information on Job Control

[John Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I got it and it looks like it will do what I want. I do have one more  
question though. Is job control only called once when the job is  
queued or is it called during a re-queued as well? Having it called  
during a re-queue would be handy.


On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> * John Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [071011 15:55]:
> > I've not found much information about writing job control files.
> > There are a few examples but not much in the way of what all of the
> > functions do or how to use them. Is there any more information to be
> > had?
>
> JobControl is simply "program" that is run.  faxq read's the output of
> the program, in  a "param: value" format, and acts on them.
>
> The params are described in the jobcontrol manpage.  As mentioned  
> in the
> man page, any option not listed there is passed directly to the  
> faxsend
> program with the -c "param:value", allowing you to driectly control
> faxsend options (like localidentifier, etc) with jobcontl.
>
> I've put a few simple examples up:
> 	http://people.ifax.com/~aidan/hylafax/jobcontrol/
>
> These samples show how to "get" information about a job from the  
> qfile,
> and how to set "params" that you can control..  These are all basic
> shell scripts, but there is nothing that makes jobcontrol have to be a
> shell script.  You could use perl, python, php, C/C++, asm, java, etc.
>
> What specifically are you looking for?
>
> a.
>
>
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