.\" $Id$ .\" .\" HylaFAX Facsimile Software .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam Leffler .\" Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc. .\" HylaFAX is a trademark of Silicon Graphics .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and .\" its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided .\" that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in .\" all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of .\" Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or .\" publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written .\" permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, .\" EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY .\" WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, .\" OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, .\" WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF .\" LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE .\" OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .if n .po 0 .ds Fx \fIHyla\s-1FAX\s+1\fP .TH FAXSEND 8 "October 3, 1995" .SH NAME faxsend \- \*(Fx facsimile transmit program .SH SYNOPSIS .B /usr/sbin/faxsend [ .B \-l ] [ .B \-p ] [ .B \-c .I config ] .B \-m .I device-ID .I qfile [qfile [qfile [...]]] .SH DESCRIPTION .I faxsend is the program that implements the facsimile transmission protocol for the \*(Fx system. .I faxsend is invoked by the .I faxq scheduler process for each facsimile transmit attempt. .I faxsend assumes that its current working directory is the top of the spooling hierarchy, that a suitable modem device has been allocated for its use, and that all documents to be sent are already converted to .SM TIFF/F (\c .SM TIFF Class F) at the appropriate resolution and with an appropriate data encoding. In normal use .I faxsend will inherit a lockfile for the modem from the .I faxq process. The format of the job description file specified on the command line is described in .IR sendq (5). .PP .I faxsend initializes the modem before attempting to transmit the facsimile using the information in the appropriate modem configuration file. If the modem does not respond to this initialization, .I faxsend will repeatedly try to initialize the modem. This behaviour is required for send-only environments in which a .IR faxgetty (8) process is not run (and the modem would be known to be in a properly initialized state). .I faxsend catches .SM SIGINT and .SM SIGTERM and cleans up any resources it controls; this is the mechanism used by .I faxq to abort a job while it is in progress. .PP Multiple fax jobs of documents with varying formatting may be sent in one fax call by ``batching'' them by supplying faxsend with multiple .I qfile entries. .PP Many aspects of .I faxsend operation are controlled through a configuration file. The configuration file is located in the spooler hierarchy in the .B etc subdirectory and is named .BI config. device-ID ; consult .IR hylafax-config (5) for detailed information on the contents of configuration files. .SH OPTIONS The following options are recognized: .TP 10 .BI \-c " config" Treat .I config as a configuration parameter specification that is interpreted after reading the per-device configuration file. For example, ``-c sessiontracing:0x4f'' would set the .B SessionTracing configuration parameter to ``0x4f'', overriding any setting in the configuration file. .TP 10 .BI \-m " devID" The device to use in processing the job. Note that this is a \fIdevice identifier\fP and not the pathname of the tty special file. A device identifier is formed from a device filename by removing any leading ``/dev/'' and converting any ``/'' characters to ``_'' characters. .TP 10 .B \-l Do the .SM UUCP lockfile protocol in .IR faxsend . By default .I faxsend assumes that it is invoked with the device already locked and that it does not need to manage the lockfile. .TP 10 .B \-p Do not change the process priority when transmitting. Normally .I faxsend will raise its priority to reduce i/o latency. This option is useful for debugging. .SH NOTES .I faxsend returns the new job status to .I faxq through the .I returned value in the associated qfile: .I send_retry, retry job; .I send_failed, job finished without success, .I send_done, job completed successfully, .I send_reformat, job should be retried after documents are reformatted. .SH FILES /var/spool/hylafax/etc/config.devID device-specific configuration file .PP Consult .IR hylafax-server (5) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR faxq (8), .IR hylafax-server (5), .IR hylafax-config (5)