Re: [Sheflug] fax script wizardry

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:27:33PM +0100, James Wallbank wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to find, write or rip off and modify a small shell script 
> that's called by inittab that will convert incoming faxes into jpegs.
> 
> I can do the conversion no problem (ImageMagick rocks!) but I'm 
> having trouble with the logic. This script's going to hang around in 
> the background until a fax appears in /var/spool/fax/incoming/. Then, 

	Not knowing of your setup, but mgetty (the fax version of it,
anyway) lets you run scripts on the received files (so you can convert
the fax to a gif and upload it to a website, say). If you're using
mgetty+fax (I think it is), check the docs, as I am sure it is there. No
need to write you own daemon when someone already has :-)

José
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