faxwatch (8)

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NAME

faxwatch - monitor low-level HylaFAX server actions

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/faxwatch [ -g ] [ -l ] [ -h host ] trigger-expression

DESCRIPTION

faxwatch registers interest in one or more events on a HylaFAX server and then prints subsequent event messages to the standard output. The faxwatch program is intended mainly for testing the event distribution mechanism used by the HylaFAX servers.

The trigger-expression is supplied as an argument to a ``SITE TRIGGER'' command passed to the hfaxd(8) The syntax for this expression is:

[<class>['<'id'>'][<mask>|'*']]*

where <class> defines a class of events and is one of:

J

for job-related events,

S

for fax send-related events,

R

for fax receive-related events, and

M

for modem-related events.

A <mask> is a 4-hex-digit mask of trigger events (see the table below). If ``*'' is specified then all events in the class are matched.

An <id> can be used to restrict matches to a specific job or modem. Eventually this will need to be generalized for job groups.

Thus an example specification that would catch any event for the modem on ttyf2 would be ``M<ttyf2>*'', and to be notified when job 1932 is requeued or completes one would use ``J<1932>4c60''.

The output from faxwatch is ASCII text that describes each event. faxwatch runs until it is interrupted.

OPTIONS

-g

Display times and dates in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). NB: this is the default.

-h host

Report the status of the server on a specific host. The host may be either a symbolic name or a network address. If no -h option is supplied, faxwatch uses the FAXSERVER environment variable to identify the HylaFAX server to contact. If this variable is not set, then faxwatch checks for a setting in the configuration files (first in the per-user file and then in the system-wide file). If all of the above fails, then faxwatch attempts to contact a server on the machine where it is run.

-l

Display times and dates in the local timezone of the server.

-v

Trace the protocol exchanges between faxwatch and the hfaxd processes on the standard output.

EVENTS

The following table specifies the current set of events that may be monitored. This information is subject to change; consult the source code for reference.

Event                Class    Mask       Description
JOB_CREATE           J        0x0001     job created
JOB_SUSPEND          J        0x0002     job suspended
JOB_READY            J        0x0004     job ready to send
JOB_SLEEP            J        0x0008     job sleeping awaiting time-to-send
JOB_DEAD             J        0x0010     job marked dead
JOB_PROCESS          J        0x0020     job processed by scheduler
JOB_REAP             J        0x0040     job corpus reaped
JOB_ACTIVE           J        0x0080     job activated
JOB_REJECT           J        0x0100     job rejected
JOB_KILL             J        0x0200     job killed
JOB_BLOCKED          J        0x0400     job blocked by other job
JOB_DELAYED          J        0x0800     job delayed by tod restriction or similar
JOB_ALTERED¹         J        0x1000     job parameters altered
JOB_TIMEDOUT         J        0x2000     job kill timer expired
JOB_PREP_BEGIN       J        0x4000     job preparation started
JOB_PREP_END         J        0x8000     job preparation finished

SEND_BEGIN           S        0x0001     fax, send attempt started
SEND_CALL            S        0x0002     fax, call placed
SEND_CONNECTED       S        0x0004     fax, call answered by fax
SEND_PAGE            S        0x0008     fax, page transmit done
SEND_DOC             S        0x0010     fax, document transmit done
SEND_POLLRCVD        S        0x0020     fax, document retrieved by poll operation
SEND_POLLDONE        S        0x0040     fax, poll operation completed
SEND_END             S        0x0080     fax, send attempt finished
SEND_REFORMAT        S        0x0100     fax, job being reformatted
SEND_REQUEUE         S        0x0200     fax, job requeued
SEND_DONE            S        0x0400     fax, send job done

RECV_BEGIN           R        0x0001     fax, inbound call started
RECV_START           R        0x0002     fax, session started
RECV_PAGE            R        0x0004     fax, page receive done
RECV_DOC             R        0x0008     fax, document receive done
RECV_END             R        0x0010     fax, inbound call finished

MODEM_ASSIGN         M        0x0001     modem assigned to job
MODEM_RELEASE        M        0x0002     modem released by job
MODEM_DOWN           M        0x0004     modem marked down
MODEM_READY          M        0x0008     modem marked ready
MODEM_BUSY           M        0x0010     modem marked busy
MODEM_WEDGED         M        0x0020     modem considered wedged
MODEM_INUSE          M        0x0040     modem in use for outbound work
MODEM_DATA_BEGIN     M        0x0080     inbound data call begun
MODEM_DATA_END       M        0x0100     inbound data call finished
MODEM_VOICE_BEGIN    M        0x0200     inbound voice call begun
MODEM_VOICE_END      M        0x0400     inbound voice call finished
MODEM_CID            M        0x0800     inbound caller-ID information

¹ Event to be removed soon.

SEE ALSO

hylafax-server(5), hfaxd(8).

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