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PAGESEND
Section: Maintenance Commands (8C)
Updated: October 3, 1995
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NAME
pagesend - HylaFAX IXO/TAP and UCP transmit program
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/pagesend
[
-l
] [
-p
] [
-c
config
]
-m
device-ID
qfile
DESCRIPTION
pagesend
is the program that implements the
IXO/TAP
and the
UCP
transmission protocol for the HylaFAX system.
pagesend
is invoked by the
faxq
scheduler process for each pager transmit attempt.
pagesend
assumes that its current working directory is the top of
the spooling hierarchy and that a suitable modem device
has been allocated for its use.
In normal use
pagesend
will inherit a lockfile for the modem from the
faxq
process.
The format of the job description file specified on the
command line is described in
sendq(5F).
pagesend
initializes the modem before attempting to transmit the pager message
using the information in the appropriate modem configuration file.
If the modem does not respond to this initialization,
pagesend
will repeatedly try to initialize the modem.
This behaviour is required for send-only environments in which a
faxgetty(8C)
process is not run (and the modem would be known to be in a
properly initialized state).
pagesend
catches
SIGINT
and
SIGTERM
and cleans up any resources it controls; this is the mechanism
used by
faxq
to abort a job while it is in progress.
Many aspects of
pagesend
operation are controlled through a configuration file.
The configuration file is located in the spooler hierarchy
in the
etc
subdirectory and is named
config.device-ID;
consult
hylafax-config(5F)
for detailed information on the contents of configuration files.
The protocol which must be used for a specific service provider
is controled from the
hylafax-info(5F)
file.
OPTIONS
- -c config
-
Treat
config
as a configuration parameter specification that is interpreted
after reading the per-device configuration file.
For example, ``-c sessiontracing:0x4f'' would set the
SessionTracing
configuration parameter to ``0x4f'', overriding any setting in
the configuration file.
- -m devID
-
The device to use in processing the job.
Note that this is a device identifier and not the
pathname of the tty special file.
A device identifier is formed from a device filename by removing
any leading ``/dev/'' and converting any ``/'' characters to ``_''
characters.
- -l
-
Do the
UUCP
lockfile protocol in
pagesend.
By default
pagesend
assumes that it is invoked with the device already locked
and that it does not need to manage the lockfile.
- -p
-
Do not change the process priority when transmitting.
Normally
pagesend
will raise its priority to reduce i/o latency.
This option is useful for debugging.
NOTES
pagesend
returns the new job status to
faxq
through the
exit(2)
return value of the process:
send_retry
(0), retry job;
send_failed
(1), job finished without success,
send_done
(2), job completed successfully,
send_reformat
(3), job should be retried after documents are reformatted.
FILES
/var/spool/hylafax/etc/config.devID device-specific configuration file
Consult
hylafax-server(5F)
for a complete discussion of the structure and
content of the spooling area.
SEE ALSO
faxq(8C),
hylafax-server(5F),
hylafax-config(5F),
hylafax-info(5F)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- NOTES
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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