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notify(8hylafax)

HylaFAX user notification script

NAME

notify - HylaFAX user notification script

SYNOPSIS

/var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify qfile why jobtime commid [ nextTry ]

DESCRIPTION

bin/notify is the command script invoked by the facsimile server to notify a user about the status of an outbound job. The default notification script sends the user electronic mail describing the event or action. The arguments are:

qfile

the pathname of the job description file.

why

a string that specifies why the user is being notified; one of:

Why	Notes	Meaning
done		job was completed successfully
failed	 ¹	job was not completed
rejected		job was rejected for specified reasons
blocked		job is blocked by concurrent jobs
requeued	¹	job was not completed, but was requeued for retry
removed		job was deleted from the queue
killed		job was deleted from the queue
timedout		job could not be sent before kill time expired
format_failed		document conversion failed
no_formatter		the document conversion program was not found
poll_rejected	¹	a polling request was rejected by the remote side
poll_no_document	¹	a polling request failed because nothing was available
poll_failed	¹	a polling request failed for an unknown reason


¹ A transcript of the failed communication is returned to the sender.

jobtime

the total transmission time of a successful job or the connect time of a failed request (passed as a string).

commid

the communication identifier of the HylaFAX process that processed the job (used for locating communication transcripts).

nextTry

the time (passed as a string) at which the next attempt will be made to complete the job. This parameter is passed only if why is ``requeued''.

FILES

/var/spool/hylafax	spooling area
/usr/sbin/sendmail	for delivering mail

SEE ALSO

faxq(8C), hylafax-server(5F), sendq(5F)

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