Re: how to see what hylafax is doing.. live

Zitat von Antonio Lapira <[email protected]>:

> for example with efax, when I give the command to send fax, I get  
> this output (so I can make my log file, for example number.log)
> while using sendfax (hylafax client) I don't get the log as this
[...]

I don't know efax, so I cannot compare it with HylaFAX.
I guss you will not find a drop-in replacement.
The sendfax program submits a job to the HylaFAX server and will exit  
when it has done this. It can only tell you if it has successfully  
submitted the job or not. It will not wait until the server starts or  
finishes processing the job.
The server will probably send your fax immediately if this is  
possible, but it may also have to wait for an unknown time until the  
necessary resources are ready. If HylaFAX has a full queue of jobs it  
may process your current job hours after submission and if something  
goes wrong it will wait some time before retrying the job.

> efax live log example:
[...]

This log looks similar to what HylaFAX writes to syslog.

I think it is very difficult to reproduce the behavior of efax with  
HylaFAX. I suggest you should think about your requirements. What  
information (from an abstract point of view) do you need in a logfile?  
What do you want to do with the logfile?
Do you need this live information for your daily work or only for an  
initial phase until you trust HylaFAX to do its job?

HylaFAX calls a notify script when it has processed (or tried to  
process) a job. This script is designed to be customized by calling  
etc/FaxNotify when present. You can create or modify etc/FaxNotify to  
collect information from various places and create files as needed.

Information what HylaFAX is doing at the moment like which job/file is  
being processed, which data is sent to or received from the modem is  
written to syslog. You can configure your syslog to collect this  
information and write it to specific destinations. (Maybe you need an  
improved syslog like syslog-ng.)
If you temporarily want to see this information you can use something  
like "tail -f /var/log/syslog | fgrep -i fax" (This simple will stop  
working when your system rotates the log files.)


Bodo


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