FAXQUIT(8C)

✨ FAXQUIT ✨

okay bestie, so faxquit is the little diva that lives in section 8C of the manual, and her whole job is telling a HylaFAX server to ✋ stop ✋ operating. she's a tiny messenger, but she's got main character energy fr fr 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/usr/bin/faxquit [ -q queue-dir ] [ modem ]

that's it, that's the whole vibe. one optional flag, one optional modem, no notes 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea, bestie: faxquit sends a message to a HylaFAX server process telling it to quit operation. like, it's the polite little "you can log off now queen" note 🫶

If modem is specified, the faxgetty(8C) process servicing that specified modem gets notified. and modem can be either of these two things:

• the name — typically the last component of the terminal port the modem is attached to 🦋
• or the full name of the associated FIFO named pipe file, e.g. `FIFO.ttym2`

If no modem is specified, faxquit will send the request to the `FIFO` named pipe file, which causes the HylaFAX queue manager process to terminate. no modem, no problem, she just goes straight to the queue manager 💀

⚠️ not me having to tell you this but: server processes may not terminate immediately. In particular the faxq process will not exit until any active jobs are completed. and no, that's not a bug, bestie — this is necessary for proper operation (faxq must wait for child processes to terminate so that it can collect their exit status and update the state of the jobs being operated on). she's a responsible queen, she finishes her homework first 😭✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -q dir — Use a spooling area other than /var/spool/hylafax. you wanna live somewhere else? iconic, go off 👑

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🌈 FILES 🌈

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

Consult hylafax-server(5F) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area. it's giving required reading, ngl 📚

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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

like, go read these too, iykyk 🧚

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October 3, 1995 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, she's FAXQUIT(8C) and she's been serving since the mid-90s 💜✨ mwah, no cap 🫶