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 <cook@cpoint.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)