Nordic Star Products 4.3A 6.8 Cleaning the statistics file

Handlingfaxes

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By givingthe parameter -x to faxq -f it is possible to see if there is one particular

modem which causesmore faulty transmissions than any other. In such a case

there is a suspicion of there being a hardware problem. This of cour se only

appliesif several lines are run.

6.8 Cleaning the statistics file

Aftera period of use, the statistics file may have grown to a considerable size. In

order to removeparts of the contents of this file the command faxclean is used.

As an argumentfor faxclean it can be indicated that information up to and

includinga particular date should be removed in the following way:

# faxclean -to 19980420

Note that faxclean must be run on the machine where the statistics file is kep t,

i.e.w hereXFAXDIR is to be found. The user who runs faxclean must also have

the authorityto read and write in the file, which is normally only the system

administrator(root).

This command can,t o advantage,be run automatically once a day or similar

usingcron.

Contents

Main Contents Page Page Page 1. Overview Page 2. Installation 3. Configuring the software 3.1 Keywords 3.2 Environment variables 3.3 Adding actions 3.4 XFAX and multiple fax devices Page 4. Sending a fax 4.1 faxsend 4.2 Attaching a note to a fax 4.3 One fax to several recipients (group transmission) 4.4 Scheduled transmissions 4.5TheIDofthefaxinthequeue 4.6 Printing a fax before sending 4.7 The script xfax 4.8 The script faxadm 4.9 Document codes 4.10 The telephone cost file ETCDIR/cost Page 5. Receiving faxes 5.1 Automatic printing of incoming faxes 6. Handling faxes 6.1 Fax queues 6.2 Reschedule a fax 6.3 Scheduling a fax 6.4 Canceling of a fax 6.5 Printing a fax 6.6 Listing faxes in a particular directory 6.7 Routine maintenance 6.8 Cleaning the statistics file 7. XFAX in a Windows environment 7.1 The XFAX Windows client (printer driver) 7.1.1 Installation 7.1.2 Using the client 7.2 Using the address book in XFAX Page 8. Overlay files and cover sheets 8.1 Using overlay files as forms and cover pages 8.2 Cover sheets the old way Page Page 9. XFAX and e-mail 9.1 Sendmail 9.2 The script faxmail Page 10. XFAX and Ghostscript (sending PDF and Postscript) 10.1 Installing Ghostscript and the XFAX driver 10.2 Troubleshooting 11. The integrated HTTP server 12. The integrated SMTP server 13. Modems and flow control 14. Command reference 14.1 Commands 14.1.1 faxadm 14.1.2 fax2bmp 14.1.3 fax2hp 14.1.6 faxmail 14.1.7 faxmaster 14.1.8 faxmime 14.1.9 faxprint 14.1.10 faxq 14.1.11 faxrm 14.1.12 faxsend Page 14.1.13 faxsr 14.1.14 faxstat 14.1.15 faxwho 14.2 Exit codes 15. Keyword reference 15.1 General keywords 15.1.1 FAXLINE 15.1.2 ACCESS_HTTP 15.1.3 ACCESS_SMTP 15.1.4 ACCEPT_USERS 15.1.5 ADMINISTRATOR 15.1.6 ALERT_USER 15.1.7 ARCHIVE_SENT Page Page 15.1.23 DOMAIN 15.1.24 EXEC_WORKDIR 15.1.25 EXECUTE_AFTER_RECEIVE 15.1.26 EXECUTE_AFTER_SEND 15.1.27 EXECUTE_BEFORE_SEND 15.1.28 EXIT_STRING 15.1.29 FAIL_DIR 15.1.30 FAIL_FAXNO 15.1.31 FAXHOST Page Page 15.1.46 LD_PREFIX 15.1.47 LINE_FAIL 15.1.48 LOCAL_PREFIX 15.1.49 LOCK_DIR 15.1.50 LOCKING_STYLE Page Page 15.1.67 RECEIVE_ONLY 15.1.68 RESOLUTION 15.1.69 RETRY_TIME 15.1.70 REVERSE_STATS 15.1.71 ROUND_ROBIN Page Page Page 16. Troubleshooting Page 17. Technical specifications 17.1 Modem drivers 17.2 File formats 17.3 Memory required 17.4 Tested platforms 17.6 Typefaces in XFAX Index