notify (8)

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
NOTES
FILES
SEE ALSO

NAME

notify - HylaFAX user notification script

SYNOPSIS

/var/spool/hylafax/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 notification 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 connect 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 determining 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 documents 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 created for each filetype.

TEMPLATE

the template subdirectory to use when sending e-mails. HylaFAX ships with a base set of templates, and some direct translations. To use the German translated templates, set TEMPLATE=de in FaxNotify. This is relative to the base template directory.

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 notification message is only sent to FaxMaster when the job experienced an error. The default is ``no''.

The settings of the user in $notify (read from the sendq job file) controls 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/hylafax   spooling area
/usr/lib/sendmail    for delivering mail