SNPP(1)

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version 1.0.3 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.22

💌 SNPP(1) — like, the snpp girlie's whole manual ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 🎀 — this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for snpp, and honestly it's giving "small tool, big pager energy" 💅. Let's get into it.

🌸 NAME

snpp — send pages via SNPP 🫶

yeah that's it, that's the whole vibe. it pages people. iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS

snpp [OPTIONS] recipient...

so you run snpp, you throw some OPTIONS at it, and then you list who you're paging as recipient... — and yeah, that ellipsis means you can hit multiple recipients, no cap 💖

💅 OPTIONS

  • -s SERVER[:PORT] — connect to the SERVER you name, and to PORT if you bothered to give one. the default is localhost:444, which like… very cozy of it 🏠
  • -f USER — shows that the page you sent is coming from USER. if you don't say anything, the default is the current user (you, bestie, it's always you 🙈).
  • -m MESSAGE — send the MESSAGE you typed right here instead of reading text from stdin. so you can be like "the message is Right There" and it just respects that ✨
  • -n — do not notify the 'from' user about the status of the page. like, no read receipts, no follow-up, we're being mysterious 🕶️
  • -d — display SNPP session debugging. for when you need to see the whole conversation, iykyk 🔍
  • -C CONF — read CONF instead of /etc/snpp.conf for the server default. custom config, custom era 🎀
  • -h — display a summary of all the available command line options. the HELP button, the classic, the "wait what were the flags again" moment 😭

🦋 DESCRIPTION

this tool sends a page via the Simple Network Paging Protocol (level 2, so you know it's the fancy one 💅). it's designed to be used with sendpage, but it should also work with any other SNPP servers — so like, it's not clingy, it plays nice with others 🫶

the /etc/snpp.conf file can contain a single line in the form of:

server:ADDRESS[:PORT]

where ADDRESS and PORT are the defaults for snpp. one line, that's all it wants, lowkey minimalist queen 🌈

👑 AUTHOR

Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> — ty for the tool king 🫡

💀 BUGS

not much happening in this tool honestly, it's a chill little guy 🍓. but they bet the use of "CALLer id" is not standard, and other SNPP servers may require this tool to be run with the -n option all the time. so like… be aware, fr fr 😬

snpp is free software; it can be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License. slay, free software ate 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO

ok that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💜 go send some pages, you're gonna do amazing 🌟

that's a wrap! this little number is from perl v5.40.2, dated 2024-06-10 — mwah, kiss the footer, bye 🎀💖✨

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