NOTIFY(8C)NOTIFY(8C)NAMEnotify - HylaFAX user notification script
SYNOPSIS
/var/spool/fax/bin/notify qfile why jobtime [ 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 notifi‐
cation 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 ¹ job was completed successfully
failed ¹² job was not completed
rejected ¹ job was rejected for specified reasons
requeued ² job was not completed, but was requeued for retry
removed ¹ job was deleted from the queue
killed ¹ job was deleted from the queue
timedout ¹ job could not be sent before kill time expired
format_failed ¹ document conversion failed
no_formatter ¹ the document conversion program was not found
poll_rejected ¹² a polling request was rejected by the remote side
poll_no_document ¹² a polling request failed because nothing was available
poll_failed ¹² a polling request failed for an unknown reason
blocked ³ job is blocked by concurrent jobs
¹ A final job state
² A transcript of the failed communication is returned to the
sender.
³ No emails are sent for the block state, the job has been
neither requeued nor done, but remains waiting in the queue
for the ability to be sent.
jobtime the total transmission time of a successful job or the con‐
nect time of a failed request (passed as a string).
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''.
NOTES
The behavior of notify is intended to be customizable via the
etc/FaxNotify script, if present. FaxNotify is sourced after the q-
file is parsed and all default values are preset. Useful settings for
FaxNotify are:
WHY is identical to why mentioned above and can be useful in deter‐
mining under what conditions various settings should take
effect. For example,
if [ "$WHY" != "done" ]; then
RETURNFILETYPE=pdf;
fi
This would only set RETURNFILETYPE when the job did not complete
successfully.
RETURNFILETYPE
can be set to ``tif'', ``pdf'', ``ps'', or ``original''. If
set, this causes notify to return a copy of the submitted docu‐
ments to the SENDER address along with the notification message.
The ``original'' setting uses the format type that was used in
the submission. Multiple values may be specified by separating
them with whitespace. In that case a separate attachment is cre‐
ated for each filetype.
NOTIFY_FAXMASTER
is used to deliver a notification message to TOADDR (which
defaults to ``FaxMaster'') that contains technical information
about the job. This is useful in allowing the administrator to
be aware of any problems before those problems are reported by
the users. Possible settings are ``yes'', ``always'', ``no'',
``never'', and ``errors''. If ``errors'' is used then the noti‐
fication message is only sent to FaxMaster when the job experi‐
enced an error. The default is ``no''.
The settings of the user in $notify (read from the sendq job file) con‐
trols whether the user will get the notification email. If you want to
force notification emails, irregardless of the users selection, or
force a blocked notification (which is not sent by default), you can
set
notify="always"
which will force the notify script to send the email.
FILES
/var/spool/fax spooling area
/usr/sbin/sendmail for delivering mail
SEE ALSOfaxq(8C), hylafax-server(5F), sendq(5F)
May 8, 1996 NOTIFY(8C)
