Section 5 : Sendpage ~ SMS and Pager Gateway

Q508: Howto set pagerMaxMsgLength?


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Q.
Howto set pagerMaxMsgLength?

I have run across a few small bugs. The only way I was able to change the pagerMaxMsgLength from 128 up to 240 was to edit the source and recompile.

A.
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:33:48 +0200 (MST)
From: Matthias Apitz <guru@softcon.de >
Subject: Re: Alpha-numeric pagers...

    ...

changing the source to configure the software is not the way
the things should work;
    
         I am guessing that for some reason or other, it cannot see the
    config.cua1 file ( I am only using one modem and I have changed the
    config.cua1 entry to read:
    
    &pagerMaxMsgLenth: 240
    
         which had no effect - and I did kill and restart everything. I will use
    strace to try and track this one down like you showed me.)

what do you mean by "it cannot see the config.cua1 file"?
faxaddmodem(1M) called from faxsetup(1M) will create a modem-config
file below etc/ (e.g. /var/spool/hylafax/etc/config.cua1) for you;
by default there is no entry in this file for the pager message
length;

if you're using sendpage(1) this command uses SNPP to contact the
hfaxd(1M) daemon; hfaxd(1M) reads the configuration from the file
hfaxd.conf in $DIR_LIB (e.g. lib/hfaxd.conf); the parameter for
the message length in SNPP is "MaxMsgLength"; see the man page
of hfaxd(1M); messages longer than this value (default 128)
are rejected;

if the job is queued and later send to the provider by pagesend(1M)
this daemon reads it configuration from the modem config file
mentioned above; the parameter is "PagerMaxmsgLength" and is
explained in the man page hylafax-config(4F); messages longer than this
value (defaults also to 128) are truncated (but send);

	....

	matthias


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