Topic: Hylafax Periodic Maintenance

[cbacani]

Hylafax comes with (2) two programs that need to be run periodically on the SME server: faxqclean and faxcron.

Periodic Maintenance:

0 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/faxqclean

25 23 * * * /usr/local/sbin/faxcron | mail faxuser

Adding crontab to the SME Server:

# pico -w /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/crontab/clean

add your cron entries:

0 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/faxqclean

25 23 * * * /usr/local/sbin/faxcron | mail faxuser

Save your file

Enter these commands to check:

# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template etc/crontab

# more /etc/crontab - just to verify your new entry is there, then
reboot your server and check using this command:

# more /etc/crontab

If someone knows of a better way to do this, please let all of us know so we can move this project foward. Again, thanks to all of you that have helped to make this work.

Carl

[pfloor]

You should not need to do that.  Hylafax puts 2 scripts in for you.

/etc/cron.hourly/hylafax
/etc/cron.daily/hylafax

I personaly move the one from .daily to .weekly as I don't need the report daily.

[SchulzStefan]

Is this working for you? My report is empty.

stefan

[SchulzStefan]

Hmm, I checked the files in the /var/spool/hylafax/etc.

A chown uucp:uucp xferfaxlog did it.

@cbacani: is it possible to get this issue fixed in the next smeserver-hylafax version?

stefan

[cactus]

Hmm, I checked the files in the /var/spool/hylafax/etc.

A chown uucp:uucp xferfaxlog did it.

@cbacani: is it possible to get this issue fixed in the next smeserver-hylafax version?

stefan

Yes, but please use the proper channel: the bugtracker.

[cactus]

If someone knows of a better way to do this, please let all of us know so we can move this project foward. Again, thanks to all of you that have helped to make this work.

For questions like this (as I suspect you are the contrib owner, right?) we have the devinfo list.

[SchulzStefan]

Bug 4837 has been added to the database.

stefan