SKYMON(1)

💖 SKYMON 💖

okay bestie, so skymon(1) — this is the manual page for a little thing called skymon, and honestly? it's giving "vintage chaos, but make it useful." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

skymon — a "moncmd" interface to a SkyTel 2-way pager. yes, a pager. we love a retro icon. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So skymon is a "moncmd" interface to a SkyTel 2-way pager. that's the whole vibe.

It pulls off its lil trick using procmail filters and password authentication. Now — the author is NOT out here claiming this is a "secure" authentication mechanism, okay? they literally say they wouldn't call it that. But in Marcus Ranum-speak, it's "really nice". slay I guess!! Use at your own risk though, no cap. 🙈

ngl it would be even more "really nice" if this did SecureID or S/Key. just saying. 💭

Also keep in mind — and this is the important bit — all queries and all results pass through the Great Wide Internet to get back to your pager. so. y'know. the internet sees everything. 🌐

🎀 OPERATION 🎀

Commands get sent via email, and the format is exactly this:

/password:command

The commands are the following ones — but heads up bestie, they can only be used if they exist in the "allow" file. like, if it's not in the allow file, it's not happening. periodt. 🔥

• eh — Enable host
• es — Enable service
• ew — Enable watch
• dh host reason — Disable host
• ds watch service reason — Disable service
• dw watch reason — Disable watch
• lf — List failures
• ld — List disabled

and the reason everything is so aggressively short? because composing messages on that silly little keypad is a pain. it's giving carpal tunnel on a calculator. 😭 the brevity is a feature, bestie, not a bug. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

mon(8), moncmd(1), monshow(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

skymon was written by Jim Trocki, <trockij@transmeta.com> 🫶

This manual page was written by Dario Minnucci <midget@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). iconic behavior honestly. 💜

okay that's the whole thing!! go forth and page people, main character energy only 🌈⭐

Dario Minnucci <midget@debian.org> — February 12, 2007 💖 this page said what it said, and it said it in SKYMON(1). byeee 🎀