good morning,
I am running a hylafax server (that part is running great) but I need a way to split all of the tif images into 1 page per file.....tiffsplit works if I manually type in the filename and ONLY if I manually type the filename.... *.tif or anything else with a $x.tif in a shell script ALL OF THEM FAIL...it will run and all it will do is take one page from the first multipage tif it finds and then quits.

any thoughts.....I want to either call tiffsplit from my FaxDispatch script or cron (via shellscript) is fine. I already all 5 words of the tiffsplit man page and I am out of ideas.

thanks!

ok i figured out the cron side of it.....I made a shell script that loops while it attempts to tiffsplit and then sleeps for one second. (my filenames are `date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`.tif)

so I have the timing figured out but tiffsplit still just wont let me pass variables in the filename grrrr > I must be missing something in the syntax....

I have tried:

tiffsplit /home/mark/Public/TIF/"`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`.tif"
tiffsplit /home/mark/Public/TIF/`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`.tif `date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`
tiffsplit /home/mark/Public/TIF/"`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`.tif" `date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`

but if I type

$tiffsplit /home/mark/Public/TIF/2011.01.14.13.53.21.tif 2011.01.14.13.53.21

it works......if I use a variable in any way shape or form it just does nothing

SOLVED

ok guys....solved it. not the cleanest but it works.

I have my FaxDispatch file place a copy in a temporary dir and then have this line in my faxdispatch
/usr/sbin/tiffsplit /var/lib/samba/fax"`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`.tif" /var/lib/samba/fax`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S`

you MUST place the FULL PATH to tiffsplit, source file, AND destination.


(optional)
then I have it delete the original now that they have been split....

I then have cron (as root) copy the files to a samba shared folder and then change their permissions to the faxuser

I hope this helps someone else

I will post my scripts later when I have more time