FAXCRON

faxcron − Hyla FAX routine maintenance script

${SBIN}/faxcron [ −n ] [ −l lastrun ]

faxcron is a command script that does routine upkeep tasks in a Hyla FAX spooling directory hierarchy. This script is intended to be invoked from cron(1m) on behalf of the fax user (often the ‘‘fax’’ user is uucp) once a day, with the standard output sent by mail to the Hyla FAX administrator. For example, the following crontab might be set up for the fax user:

  25   23    *    *    *   sh ${SBIN}/faxcron | mail FaxMaster

The faxcron script does the following work:

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report statistics for facsimile transmitted since the last time faxcron was run.

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report statistics for facsimile transmitted in the past week.

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report statistics for facsimile received since the last time faxcron was run.

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report statistics for facsimile received in the past week.

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report any recent calls that failed suspiciously and return the associated trace log;

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purge data that is 30 days or older from the remote machine information directory;

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delete information that is 30 days or older from session trace log files;

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remove files from the tmp directory that are older than 1 day;

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remove files in the received facsimile queue that are 7 days or older;

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report sites that are currently having jobs rejected; and

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force all session log files to be owned by the fax user and kept with protection mode 644.

−n

Forces faxcron to run without updating any files.

−l lastrun

Forces the notion of the last time that faxcron was run to be lastrun. The value of lastrun is a date and time string of the form ‘‘MM/DD/YY HH:MM’’ (the date(1) format string ‘‘%D %H:%M’’).

−info n

Set the expiration time for data in the info database to be n days.

−log n

Set the expiration time for session log data to be n days.

−rcv n

Set the expiration time for files in the received facsimile queue to be n days.

−tmp n

Set the expiration time for files in the tmp directory to be n days.

−mode m

Set the file protection mode for session logs to m (a command line argument to chmod(1)).

This script requires nawk(1) or gawk(1) and a date (1) program that supports the ‘‘+format’’ option.

If session logs are to be kept private this script must be modified to filter out sensitive information such as calling card numbers. (It should also be run with ‘‘−mode 0600’’ so that session log files are not publicly readable.)

${SPOOL}/etc/lastrun

timestamp of last run

${SBIN}/xferfaxstats

for generating transmit statistics

${SBIN}/recvstats

for generating receive statistics

${SPOOL}/tmp/faxcronXXXX

temporary file for truncating session logs

${SPOOL}/tmp/faxlogXXXX

temporary file for logs of failed calls

cron(1m), faxq(1m), faxgetty(1m), faxsend(1m), xferfaxstats(1m), recvstats(1m), hylafax-server(4f)