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NAME

       faxqueue - sendfax fax spool queue control files

SYNOPSIS

       /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F*/JOB

DESCRIPTION

       The  JOB  files  in  the  subdirectories  of  the  outgoing  fax  spool
       directory, /var/spool/fax/outgoing build up a queue of faxes to be sent
       by  faxrunq(1).  They  are  created  by faxspool(1), can be viewed with
       faxq(1), and be deleted by faxrm(1).

FORMAT

       The format of the JOB file is as follows:

       Each line consists of a leading keyword and associated  data  (rest  of
       the  line).  Some are required, some others are optional. The currently
       implemented keywords are:

       phone <number>
              The telephone number to send the fax to. Required.

       user <user>
              The originating user name (on the local machine). If  no  "mail"
              field  is  present, this user will get the status mail about the
              fax. Required.

       mail <email>
              If this field is present, faxrunq(1) will send its  status  mail
              to  the  address  given  here.  If  not, faxrunq(1) will use the
              "user" field.  Optional.

       input <file(s)>
              The file names passed to faxspool(1).  Optional,  used  only  by
              faxq(1).

       pages <file(s)>
              The  file names, relative to the directory where the JOB file is
              found, that are to be sent with sendfax(8). The  files  have  to
              exist,  and  be  readable  by  the  user  that  runs faxrunq(1).
              Required, except if "poll" is used, then it’s optional.

       priority <0-9>
              This can be used to set the priority for this  job  in  the  fax
              queue (higher priority jobs get sent before all lower-pri jobs).
              So far, only faxrunqd uses this field, faxrunq does  NOT.  9  is
              the highest, 0 the lowest priority. 5 is the default.

       Status <message>
              Automatically  appended  by faxrunq(1) after each run, tells the
              reader about successful and unsuccessful tries to send this job.
              If  more  than  five  "FATAL"  errors are listed, the fax job is
              removed from the queue.

       verbose_to <blurb>
              A  plain-text  description  of  the  receiver  of  the  fax.  Is
              returned,  if  present,  in  the  mail  messages  "your  fax  to
              <blurb>". Optional.

       time <hhmm>
              If present, faxrunq won’t send this job before the  given  time.
              The  format  must  be exactly "hhmm", in 24-hr-format, otherwise
              faxrunq won’t understand it. Optional.

       poll   Flag token.  If present, faxrunq will  try  to  poll  the  given
              phone number for documents (see "sendfax -p").

       normal_res
              Flag  token.   If present, faxrunq will transmit all pages using
              normal resolution (see "sendfax -n").

       acct_handle <arbitrary string>
              This is a pure comment field, but sendfax(8) will  log  it  into
              its  transaction  log  file.  So  this can be used as a customer
              handle, a job number, whatever you need to get the  phone  bills
              charged  to  the  customer  (the programs won’t look at it, just
              pass it through). Optional.

       subject <arbitrary string>
              This is also a pure comment field, used only  for  informational
              purposes.  faxrunq will return it in the sucess/failure mail. If
              you use faxspool -s <subj>, it will put this string on the cover
              page and in the JOB file.

PERMISSIONS

       Starting    with    mgetty    1.1.29,    the    fax   spool   directory
       /var/spool/fax/outgoing is no longer  world-writeable.   It  should  be
       owned  by  the  user  ’uucp’  and  be  mode  755.   The  faxrunq(1) and
       faxrunqd(1) programs should also be run under that user ID if possible.

       If  the  fax  spool directory is world- or group-writeable, there are a
       number of denial of service or file overwrite  /  file  access  attacks
       possible that it’s very hard to guard against. So don’t do this!

       If  the  fax  spool  directory  has  the  proper permissions, there are
       currently no known attacks against faxrunq/faxrunqd, even if  they  run
       as "root", but it’s always more safe to run as untrusted user.

PROCESSING

       While  a given JOB file is processed by faxrunq(1), it’s locked against
       sending it multiple times by temporarily  renaming  it  to  JOB.locked,
       thus  it  may  happen  that  a faxq(1) command doesn’t show this job. (
       faxrunqd(8) is a bit smarter and does the locking by  creating  a  hard
       link).

       When  a  job is successfully sent, it’s not deleted but the JOB file is
       renamed to JOB.done.  Because of this, you can still see old jobs  with
       "faxq  -o".  You  should regularly clean up the outgoing fax directory,
       removing old  faxes.  If  you  don’t  want  this  behaviour,  edit  the
       faxrunq(1) config file and enable the option delete-sent-jobs yes

       When  a  job  cannot  be  sent  after  several  tries (excluding normal
       difficulties like the called number being busy or the  modem  being  in
       use),  the JOB file is renamed to JOB.suspended.  To re-queue this job,
       call faxq -r -- this renames the JOB file back.

SEE ALSO

       faxrunq(1), faxspool(1), faxrm(1), faxq(1), faxrunqd(8)