FAXABORT(8)

💅 FAXABORT — the faxabort(8) page, bestie edition

okay so this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, section 8 (that's the big-girl sysadmin section, we love her). And its whole personality is: it tells a HylaFAX server to stop receiving a fax. That's it. That's the job. Let's go. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

faxabort — tell a HylaFAX server to abort a receive 🛑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/usr/sbin/faxabort [ -q dir ] modem

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So faxabort sends a message to a HylaFAX faxgetty(8) process that's servicing modem, and it's basically like sliding into that process's DMs to be like "hey bestie, abort whatever receive you're doing right now." 💌

That modem you pass in? It can be either of these:

• the name itself (typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to), or
• the full name of the associated FIFO named pipe file, like FIFO.ttym2.

⚠️ Not me being the bearer of bad news but — if you wanna abort a send operation, you do not use this. You have to use the faxrm(1) command instead. Different tool, different vibe. 💀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -q dir — use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax. Like, if your spool lives somewhere else, this is how you tell her. 🗂️

🙈 NOTES 🙈

ngl this part is a little tragic: on some systems it is literally not possible to abort a received facsimile because of problems in the operating system. And on those systems? The message faxabort sends will be (silently) ignored. Just — no error, no drama, no nothing. She hears you, she just can't act on it. 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /var/spool/hylafax — default spooling area
• /var/spool/hylafax/FIFO — fifo for contacting faxq

If you want the complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area, consult hylafax-server(5). It's giving required reading, fr fr. 📚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

hylafax-server(5), faxq(8), faxgetty(8)

and that's the whole page, bestie — main character energy, zero notes. This little icon dropped way back on March 3, 1995, from the System Manager's Manual, and she's been telling servers to abort receives ever since. slay. 💅✨🫶