Nordic Star Products 4.3A - Manual (Page 22)

Handling faxes
XFAX - User’s Guide 4.3a 22
By giving the parameter -x to faxq -f it is possible to see if there is one particular
modem which causes more faulty transmissions than any other. In such a case
there is a suspicion of there being a hardware problem. This of course only
applies if several lines are run.
6.8 Cleaning the statistics file
After a period of use, the statistics file may have grown to a considerable size. In
order to remove parts of the contents of this file the command faxclean is used.
As an argument for faxclean it can be indicated that information up to and
including a particular date should be removed in the following way:
# faxclean -to 19980420
Note that faxclean must be run on the machine where the statistics file is kept,
i.e. where XFAXDIR is to be found. The user who runs faxclean must also have
the authority to read and write in the file, which is normally only the system
administrator (root).
This command can, to advantage, be run automatically once a day or similar
using cron.