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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need Help Writing Script To Email When Fax Queue Goes Down Post 302322341 by ITAdmin08 on Wednesday 3rd of June 2009 11:38:53 AM
Old 06-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by TonyFullerMalv
Okat here goes:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/path/to/fax/commands
export PATH

FAXSTATUS=`vxfstat -a`
FAXTEST=`echo "${FAXSTATUS}" | grep "not running"`
if [ -n "${FAXTEST}" ]; then
  date > /tmp/mailfile
  echo "Fax not running." >> /tmp/mailfile
  echo "Status =" >> /tmp/mailfile
  echo ${FAXSTATUS} >> /tmp/mailfile
  fixfax
  sleep 3
  echo "Status after running fixfax =" >> /tmp/mailfile
  vxfstat -a >> /tmp/mailfile
  mailx -s "Fax has gone down" user@domain.com < /tmp/mailfile
fi

Replace /path/to/fax/commands with the path to vxfstat and fixfax.
Replace the email address with the one (or more with comma delimiters) that the message should go to.

Call this from cron at suitable regular intervals as the user that can get the status and run fixfax and it may be self healing as well as emailing that the fax queue went down.

looks like this will work. only problem is when fixfax is run it requires you to hit the enter key, is there a way to do that? Could I just leave out fixfax? I really just need it to notify me.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

faxcron

FAXCRON(8)						      System Manager's Manual							FAXCRON(8)

NAME

       faxcron - HylaFAX routine maintenance script

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/faxcron [ -n ] [ -l lastrun ]

DESCRIPTION

       faxcron	is  a  command	script	that  does  routine upkeep tasks in a HylaFAX spooling directory hierarchy.  This script is intended to be
       invoked from cron(8) on behalf of the fax user (often the ``fax'' user is uucp) once a day, with the standard output sent by  mail  to  the
       HylaFAX administrator.  For example, the following crontab might be set up for the fax user:
	 25   23    *	 *    *   sh /usr/sbin/faxcron | mail FaxMaster

       The faxcron script does the following work:

       o  report statistics for facsimile transmitted since the last time faxcron was run.

       o  report statistics for facsimile transmitted in the past week.

       o  report statistics for facsimile received since the last time faxcron was run.

       o  report statistics for facsimile received in the past week.

       o  report any recent calls that failed suspiciously and return the associated trace log;

       o  purge data that is 30 days or older from the remote machine information directory;

       o  delete information that is 30 days or older from session trace log files;

       o  remove files from the tmp directory that are older than 1 day;

       o  remove files in the received facsimile queue that are 7 days or older;

       o  report sites that are currently having jobs rejected; and

       o  force all session log files to be owned by the fax user and kept with protection mode 644.

OPTIONS

       -n	 Forces faxcron to run without updating any files.

       -l lastrun
		 Forces  the  notion  of  the last time that faxcron was run to be lastrun.  The value of lastrun is a date and time string of the
		 form ``MM/DD/YY HH:MM'' (the date(1) format string ``%D %H:%M'').

       -info n	 Set the expiration time for data in the info database to be n days.

       -log n	 Set the expiration time for session log data to be n days.

       -rcv n	 Set the expiration time for files in the received facsimile queue to be n days.

       -tmp n	 Set the expiration time for files in the tmp directory to be n days.

       -mode m	 Set the file protection mode for session logs to m (a command line argument to chmod(1)).

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 to filter out sensitive information such as calling card numbers.   (It
       should also be run with ``-mode 0600'' so that session log files are not publicly readable.)

FILES

       /var/spool/hylafax		      spooling area
       /var/spool/hylafax/status/lastrun      timestamp of last run
       /usr/sbin/xferfaxstats		      for generating transmit statistics
       /usr/sbin/recvstats		      for generating receive statistics
       /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxcronXXXX     temporary file for truncating session logs
       /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxlogXXXX      temporary file for logs of failed calls

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), faxq(8), faxgetty(8), faxsend(8), xferfaxstats(8), recvstats(8), hylafax-server(5)

								   May 12, 1996 							FAXCRON(8)
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