sendpage - listen for pages via SNPP, and send pages via modem
sendpage [OPTIONS] [recipient ...]
- -bd
- Start sendpage in "daemon mode" where it will start all the
Paging Central queues and wait for pages to be delivered. When sendpage
runs as a daemon, it must be running as the 'sendpage' user as specified
in the sendpage.cf file.
- -bp
- Display all the pages waiting in the Paging Central queues.
- -bv
- Try to expand the "recipient" name, using the recipient aliases
specified in the configuration file.
- -bs
- Shutdown the running sendpage daemon and all its children. If a Paging
Central is in the middle of delivering a page, it will finish up and exit
as soon as its current page is handled.
- -br
- This will send a SIGHUP to the master daemon. When the master gets the
SIGHUP, it will re-read its configuration file, and restart all the Paging
Centrals. It will wait for any busy Paging Centrals to finish before
continuing.
- -bq
- This displays the state of the running daemons: Running or Not running. If
a pid file is stale (the file exists, but the process doesn't), it will
mark that pid as "Stale".
- -q[R pc]
- This will send a SIGUSR1 signal to either the master daemon, or, if the
Paging Central is specified, just that Paging Central in particular. When
the master gets a SIGUSR1, it will send it to each of the running Paging
Centrals. If the Paging Central is not busy, it will immediately start a
queue run.
- -C FILE
- Read the configuration file FILE instead of the default
/etc/sendpage/sendpage.cf
- -h
- Display a summary of all the available command line options.
- -d
- Turn on debugging (like "debug=true" in
/etc/sendpage/sendpage.cf)
- -f USER
- Show that the sent page is coming from USER. Default is the current
user.
- -m MESSAGE
- Send the given MESSAGE instead of reading text from stdin.
- -n
- Do not notify the 'from' user about the status of the page.
Sendpage can run as the delivery agent, or as a client to insert a
page into the paging queue. For the various command-line arguments, the idea
here was to use sendmail-style arguments where I can, not to fully implement
every option that sendmail has. I just want the learning curve of sendpage
to be small for people already familiar with sendmail.
- /etc/sendpage/sendpage.cf
- Default location for sendpage.cf, which holds all the configuration
information for sendpage, including Paging Central definitions,
recipients, and various other behaviors.
- /var/spool/sendpage
- Default directory for all the Paging Central queues and pid files.
- /var/lock
- Default directory to keep the UUCP-style device locks.
Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Oh, I bet this code is crawling with them. :) I've done my best to
test this code, but I'm only one person. If you find strange behavior,
please let me know.
sendpage is free software; it can be used under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
perl(1), kill(1), Device::SerialPort(3),
Mail::Send(3), Sendpage::KeesConf(3),
Sendpage::KeesLog(3), Sendpage::Modem(3),
Sendpage::PagingCentral(3), Sendpage::PageQueue(3),
Sendpage::Page(3), Sendpage::Recipient(3),
Sendpage::Queue(3)