FAXCRON

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Updated: April 7, 1994
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NAME

faxcron - FlexFAX routine maintenance script

SYNOPSIS

bin/faxcron [ -n ]

DESCRIPTION

faxcron is a command script that does routine upkeep tasks in a FlexFAX spooling directory hierarchy. This script is intended to be invoked from cron(1M) on behalf of the fax user once a day with the standard output sent by mail to the FlexFAX administrator. For example, setup the following crontab for the fax user:

25    23    *    *    *    sh /usr/spool/fax/bin/faxcron | mail FaxMaster

faxcron does the following work:

*: report any recent calls that failed suspiciously and return the associated trace log;
*: purge data that is 30 days or older from the remote machine information directory;
*: delete information that is 30 days or older from session trace log files;
*: remove received facsimile that are 7 days or older;
*: report sites that are currently having jobs rejected; and
*: force all session log files to be owned by the fax user and kept with protection mode 644.

The -n option forces faxcron to run without updating any files.

NOTES

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.

FILES

${SPOOL}                spooling area
${SPOOL}/etc/lastrun    timestamp of last run
/tmp/faxcronXXXX        temporary file for truncating session logs
/tmp/faxlogXXXX         temporary file for logs of failed calls

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