NAME

faxd − Starts up FAX daemon. 

SYNOPSIS

faxd [ −errormail mail-address ]

DESCRIPTION

faxd is FAX management daemon that operates on the machine carrying FAX board (NWB-239). 
It is usually called from rc.local file during booting.
If multiple FAX boards are installed in one machine, only one daemon operates.
FAX daemon starts up one reception exclusive process for the FAX board (line) where FAX information file (/var/sony/etc/faxdinfo) is set as reception ready.
FAX daemon can accept other FAX commands because FAX commands such as send or read-out of received data that are issued from machines in network, forked and processed separately.
Requests of send/polling-reception are queued. When queue has request to be processed, FAX daemon starts up the send exclusive process. The send exclusive process executes the actual send/polling-reception processings.
The internet port number that is used for communication with FAX command is obtained by getservbyname(3).  It is normally no. 3074. 
In FAX daemon, only the request from the machines that are registered in FAX client machine registration file (/var/sony/etc/hosts.faxd), are accepted. Also, only the requests from the users who are registered to the password file (/etc/passwd) of the machine where FAX daemon is operating, are processed.

The following options are recognized. 

−e[rrormail] mail-address
In case that an electronic mail is set to be issued, when send-receive processings are completed using send/polling-reception commands, (and when the −mail option is specified,) FAX daemon uses /usr/lib/sendmail to issue an electronic mail. 
The mail address that is specified by errormail option is used in Errors-To: field of the mail header. 

FILES

/var/sony/etc/hosts.faxdFAX client machine registration file
/var/sony/etc/faxdinfoFAX information file
/etc/passwdPassword file

NEWS-OSRelease 4.2.1R