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Dept. of Computer Science  >  CS 4  >  Services  >  Fax  >  Status

How Can I Get The Current Status Of The FAX Job Queue?

Just send a mail to faxserver@i4fax with the subject "queue" (or "status" or "state"):

% mail -s "queue" faxserver@i4fax < /dev/null
<>We could have omitted the IO redirection part "</dev/null" and typed "^D" instead --- this is just to tell mail(1) that there is no body part, that's all.

Assuming you sent a facsimile to the number +448014443211 and scheduled it to be sent at 18:01 next Friday you could get something like this:



To: Bill Shakespeare <William.Shakespeare@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Status Query
Date: Mon, 24 May 93 14:22:13 +0200

Your request for a status query has been processed and produced 
the following results

Server on magellan:ttyh0 for +49.9131.8528732: Running and idle.
Server on magellan:ttyh2 for +49.9131.8528733: Running and idle.

Job  Modem Destination     Time-To-Send     Sender         Status
191  any   +4480144432111  1801 Fri         Bill Shakespea submitted 
to at a...

We hope to have provided a satisfactory service, and remain
obediently yours,
i4fax-daemon

(Alternatively you could have looked at the WWW page showing the up-to-date FAX server status.)

What do you learn from this message? Well,

  1. the job identification, it's listed in the job column and in this case it is 191
  2. the destination FAX number which is +4480144432111,
  3. that the facsimile job got scheduled for transmission at 6:01 PM next Friday (18:01 Fri, Time-To-Send column), and also
  4. The status (Status column) is "submitted to at at ...." --- this could also be
  5. "Sending to +4480144432111", or
  6. "Receiving from +4480144432111" (in case the Dark Lady sends Bill a note), or also
  7. "Processing" which would tell us that the FAX server is still chewing on our facsimile job.
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