man sendpage () - listen for pages via SNPP, and send pages via modem

NAME

sendpage - listen for pages via SNPP, and send pages via modem

SYNOPSIS

sendpage [OPTIONS] [recipient ...]

OPTIONS

-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.

DESCRIPTION

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.

FILES

/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.

AUTHOR

Kees Cook <cook@cpoint.net>

BUGS

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.

COPYRIGHT

sendpage is free software; it can be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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