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

NAME SYNOPSIS OPTIONS DESCRIPTION FILES AUTHOR BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

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

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.cf

	−h		Display a summary of all the available command line options.
	−d		Turn on debugging (like "debug=true" in /etc/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.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.

	−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".