[ale] gostscript question

walter Sams wally at samsco.local
Tue Nov 18 21:12:28 EST 2003


Dow, dont know if it matters but I use RH9 not Suse

Thank you for your help

Walter Sams

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:45, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Walter,
> After looking at the first png file (By the way, your doing great!), 
> I've noticed that you have a fax user that has processes running right 
> after a reboot.  This is a little puzzling to me unless your machine has 
> remembered between reboots the faxes that hadn't been sent, which can 
> happen since they may be queued in the /var/spool directory.  To help us 
> more and since you are getting the hang of sending us output, I am going 
> to list some more commands to send us.  All this should be done in a 
> shell, preferably as root since that seems to allow everything to work 
> for you.
> 
> Do this at the command line after a reboot and before a fax is sent.
> 
> ps auxww > /tmp/nofax.reboot.ps.txt
> ls -l /etc/init.d/rc5.d > /tmp/startuplink.init5.txt
>     ^
> (Note this is a number one not the letter l)
> 
> Then send one fax and do this commands:
> 
> ps auxww > /tmp/onefax.ps.txt
> 
> Then send one more fax and repeat:
> 
> ps auxww > /tmp/twofax.ps.txt
> 
> 
> Then attach the text output you've just generated to an email back to 
> ALE.  I'll take a look.  The images you sent were fine except the screen 
> and font size don't show the whole output.  This way we will get the 
> everything the ps command can tell us.
> 
> ALE'rs, I don't have a full featured SuSE 8.2 installed right now to 
> look at the hylafax and gs commands as setup for faxing under SuSE.  
> Does anyone have both installed and would be willing to check out the 
> normal chain of file flow thru the programs and /var/spool directories?  
> I'd like to be able to get Walter to list for us the right spool 
> directory.  Thanks,
> Dow



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