I think this is OK with me. But important is that the troubleshooting
methods (how to get logs) gets well documented, and also the workflow
itself.
Till
dwelch91 wrote:
> Johannes-
>
> I agree with your points. If you remember we had similar discussion as
> this maybe a year ago. I think the current design satisfies Till's
> requirements expect for the QSocketNotifier issue (I'm not going to call
> it a PyQt bug at this point since I still am not sure).
>
> To summarize Till's requirements/issues:
>
> 1. Save faxes in a file. This is already the current design. Fax files
> are saved in ~/hpfax/. They are never removed by the software. They can
> be added back into a new fax by adding them as any other file. In the
> future, I hope to support a fax file viewer so that they may be viewed
> before adding. Since we do not use a standard G3 file format (the format
> is documented in fax/fax.py), kfaxviewer (or similar) will not work
> (this is also because at some point in the future, we hope to support
> color faxing, which uses the JPEG format and kfaxviewer only supports
> TIFF I believe).
>
> 2. Logging. This is possible by hpssd with 'sudo hpssd.py -gx' and the
> sendfax UI with 'hp-sendfax --gg'. Logging for hpfax: goes into the CUPS
> error log like any other CUPS backend.
>
> 3. Determine SIP/PyQt versions. The utility 'hp-check' shows this info
> (in the next release, 1.6.11). There is already code in the current
> release for this, it simply needs to be hooked up.
>
> 4. Faxes don't get "lost" if hp-sendfax not running. This is currently
> the design, with a caveat. Currently, faxes are pushed to hpssd and
> stored in memory until hp-sendfax "picks them up". A power outage or
> exhaustion of memory could cause a problem with this design. So, I am
> considering having hpssd queue up the data in file stores rather than in
> memory.
>
> 5. Faxes leave the CUPS queue immediately. This is the current design.
> The fax is pushed to hpssd as soon as the rendering step is complete.
> They are queued in hpssd until an appropriate hp-sendfax client pulls them.
>
> 6. hp-sendfax can be closed without faxing and the fax jobs do not get
> lost. As I said before, I so not agree with this as a design element,
> esp. in light of item 1. If the user cancels without sending the files,
> I assume that is the equivalent of 'lprm'. The job is lost. (However,
> due to item 1, it can be recovered.)
>
> 7. CUPS's filter work to get a job converted to G3 can easily be
> monitored by watching files appearing in the hot folder and by opening
> them with Konqueror (Konqueror uses KDE's fax program to display G3
> files). If I were to implement the changes in item 4, this would be
> satisfied.
>
> 8. The data flow is much more clear to users and admins, so debugging is
> easier. Also maintaining it secure is probably easier then. My feeling
> is that the combination of logging in hpssd, hp-sendfax, CUPS output of
> hpfax:, and the files that are permanently stored in the user's home
> directory adequately address this issue. The remainder of doubt can be
> handled with a technical document with troubleshooting steps and data
> flows.
>
> (Till, did I leave anything out?)
>
>
> So, my planned steps are this point are:
>
> 1. Investigate the QSocketNotifier issue. We will continue to try to
> work with Riverbank for a solution.
>
> 2. If that fails, consider making the hpssd <--> hp-sendfax
> communication polling based. There are still two other areas (hp-toolbox
> and hp-fab) that are affected by this issue, but those can also be
> solved, I believe, by poilling. I dislike polling for the obvious
> performance and I/O considerations, but I think it would be workable if
> done correctly.
>
> 3. Implement to save to file in hpssd as outlined in item 4, above. This
> is probably a good idea irregardless of the QSocketNotifier issue.
>
>
> Longer term, I think I might have to consider moving to PyGTK or
> wxPython. I would be sad to have to do this, as I really like Qt and I
> think overall the PyQt/SIP software is excellent. But, this is an
> important feature and this issue is a show stopper. Maybe the
> alternative is to port to PyQt4 and see if QSocketNotifier will work for
> me there.
>
>
> Thanks for all the input and assistance,
>
> Don
>
>
>
> On 10/31/06, *Johannes Meixner* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]>>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Oct 30 19:22 Till Kamppeter wrote (shortened):
> > When a user sends a job into the fax queue, the hpijs driver converts
> > the job into fax G3 format and the hpfax CUPS backend drops the
> fax G3
> > file in the user's hot folder (hot folder created by hpfax
> backend if
> > needed).
>
> No!
>
> 1.
> The user's home directory is sacrosanct for any process which
> does not run under the user's own ID (the backend runs as root
> or as a system user like "lp").
>
> 2.
> It cannot work via network.
> I.e. when the user sends a fax by "printing" it from his workstation
> to a remote fax/print server where HPLIP and CUPS actually run.
> Even if this is not yet supported it will be supported in the future
> (as far as I did understand the HPLIP authors) and then such
> dirty and ugly hacks will fortunately break.
>
>
> Of course there is a big difference whether a particular user
> finds software which uses such evil hacks in the Internet
> and installs it on his particular workstation or whether
> such a kind of software is distributed by a company like HP
> or distributed and installed by default by a Linux distributor.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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