We need to add some simple scipts to activate this feature.By defult hylafax will not decode the attachments.So you need to edit /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf.

specify mime type directory location in /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf

add the following line

MIMEConverters: /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype

Then create the converting scripts under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype

mkdir /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype

you need to create followin directories under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype

mkdir application

mkdir image

mkdir text

the tree look like this

/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/
/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/pdf
/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/ps
/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image/tiff

/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/text/html

For msword type of files create msword under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

touch msword

chmod +x  msword

vi msword

add the following lines in msword script

#!/bin/bash
antiword $1
exit

For PDF type of files create pdf under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

touch pdf

chmod +x pdf

vi pdf

add the following lines in pdf script

#!/bin/sh
#/application/pdf
# convert PDF attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
pdf2ps $1 -
# if you want to send multipage pdf attachments it is better to use “pdftops”
# use the line below instead of “pdf2ps $1 -”
# /usr/bin/pdftops $1 -

For postscript type of files create postscript under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

touch postscript

chmod +x postscript

vi postscript

add the following lines in postscript script

#!/bin/sh
#/application/pdf
# convert PDF attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
pdf2ps $1 -
# if you want to send multipage pdf attachments it is better to use “pdftops”
# use the line below instead of “pdf2ps $1 -”
# /usr/bin/pdftops $1 -
mail:/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application #
mail:/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application # cat postscript
#!/bin/sh
#/application/ps
# convert PS attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
echo $1

For PS attachment files create ps under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

touch postscript

chmod +x postscript

vi postscript

add the following lines in ps script

#!/bin/sh
#/application/ps
# convert PS attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
echo $1

For rtf attachement files create rtf under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/

touch rtf

chmod +x rtf

vi rtf

add the following lines in rtf

#!/bin/sh
#/application/rtf
# convert RTF attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
/usr/bin/unrtf –html $1 | /usr/bin/html2ps

For jpeg attachment files create jpeg under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image

touch image

chmod +x image

vi image

add the following lines in jpeg

#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/jpeg2ps  $1
exit

For tiff attachment files create tiff under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image

touch tiff

chmod +x tiff
vi tiff

Then add the following lines

#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/jpeg2ps  $1
exit
mail:/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/image # cat tiff
#!/bin/sh
#/image/tif
# convert TIF attachment to Postscript for HylaFAX to send
/usr/bin/tiff2ps $1
# if you want to send multipage tiff images, than you have to add the option “-a”
# for example:
#/usr/bin/tiff2ps -a $1

For HTML type  files create html under /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/text

cd /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/text

touch html

chmod +x html
vi html

then add the following lines.

#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/html2ps   $1
exit

Integrating with MTA’s

cd /usr/src/hylafax-(source package)

cd faxmail

there you can see the files

mailfax.sh-sendmail

mailfax.sh-postfix

mailfax.sh-qmail

mailfax.sh-smail

do as per the files says.

Prerequisites
1) apache/cgi configuration
2) a Mysql installation

Then create script “getip.sh” under “/var/www/cgi-bin/”  ( set location of cgi-bin directory  as per the apache configuration)

#!/bin/bash
#Getting IP address CGI-BASH-script
#Jadu Saikia http://unstableme.blogspot.com/

#MySQL settings

# MHOME=  ( location of mysql binary)
MHOME=/usr/local/mysql/bin
HOST=127.0.0.1
USER=root
PASS=”"
DB=mydb

OWNER=$(echo “$QUERY_STRING” |awk -F “=” ‘{print $NF}’)
IP=$REMOTE_ADDR
#QUERY_STRING = Query information that follows the ? in the URL that referenced this script.
#REMOTE_ADDR = IP address of the remote host making the request

#HTML Output
echo “Content-type: text/html”
echo “”
echo “<html><head><title>YOUR IP</title></head><body><h1>I am collecting the IPs</h1><pre>”;
echo “IP: <em>$IP</em><br />”
echo “You Are IP is : <em>$OWNER</em><br />”

$MHOME/mysql -u$USER -h$HOST –password=$PASS -e “INSERT INTO mydb.ips(rdate,ip,owner) VALUES(NOW(),’$IP’,'$OWNER’)” $DB

echo “</pre></body></html>”;

Then

Create MySql Database for storing the data.

logon to mysql

mysql -u root -p password

create database and table

create database mydb

use mydb

create table mydb.ips ( rdate DATE, ip VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, owner VARCHAR(25));

exit

Suppose the IP of the box where you are running the cgi is “172.22.22.188″ (your local ip).

Now construct the urls for your colleagues this way:

http://172.22.22.188/cgi-bin/getip.sh?owner=alexm
http://172.22.22.188/cgi-bin/getip.sh?owner=nsarma
…
…

And send them the individual urls in mail with a request to click the url (just to help you collecting the ips in the mysql table)

Once they click, your database table will be automatically populated with datas like this:

mysql> select * from mydb.ips;
+————+—————+

#!/bin/bash
EMAIL=”riyesh@linuxbuddies.com”
SUBJECT=”Alert $(hostname) load average is $L05?
TEMPFILE=”/tmp/$(hostname)”
echo “Load average Crossed allowed limit.” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “Hostname: $(hostname)” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “Local Date & Time : $(date)” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Uptime status: |” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
/usr/bin/uptime >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Top 20 CPU consuming processes: |” >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux | head -1 >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux –no-headers | sort -rn +2 | head -20 >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Top 10 memory-consuming processes: |” >> $TEMPFILE
ps aux –no-headers| sort -rn +3 | head >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Memory and Swap status: |” >> $TEMPFILE
/usr/bin/free -m >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Active network connection: |” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
/bin/netstat -tnup | grep ESTA >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “| Disk Space information: |” >> $TEMPFILE
echo “——————————————-” >> $TEMPFILE
/bin/df -h >> $TEMPFILE
echo “—————–THE END——————-” >> $TEMPFILE
L05=”$(uptime|awk ‘{print $(NF-2)}’|cut -d. -f1)”
if test $L05 -gt 5
then
mail -s “$SUBJECT” “$EMAIL” < $TEMPFILE
fi
rm -f $TEMPFILE