SNPP(1p)

📦 version 1.0.3, in ubuntu jammy

💖 SNPP(1p) — the user-contributed perl docs, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so this is SNPP(1p), a little perl-flavored page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe, and I'm about to make it make sense. pager girlies rise up 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

snpp — send pages via SNPP 📟✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

snpp [OPTIONS] recipient...

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options, then the people you're paging. no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -s SERVER[:PORT] — connect to the SERVER you name (and the PORT too, if you felt like giving one). if you don't say anything, the default is localhost:444. iconic default behavior honestly.
  • -f USER — shows that the page you're sending is coming from USER. if you skip it, the default is the current user, aka you, main character 🫶
  • -m MESSAGE — send this MESSAGE right here instead of reading the text from stdin. say it with your chest, no stdin required.
  • -n — do not notify the 'from' user about the status of the page. silent mode. mysterious. lowkey.
  • -d — display SNPP session debugging. for when you need to see everything going on, nosy bestie energy 🔍
  • -C CONF — read CONF instead of /etc/sendpage/snpp.conf for the server default. pick your own adventure file.
  • -h — display a summary of all the available command line options. the classic "help me help you" 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this tool sends a page via the Simple Network Paging Protocol (level 2). it was designed to be used with 'sendpage', but it should work with any other SNPP servers too — it's flexible like that, we love a versatile queen 💜

the /etc/sendpage/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 the whole file. minimalism ate. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>

💀 BUGS 💀

not much happening in this tool, ngl. but the author bets the use of "CALLer id" is not standard, and other SNPP servers may require this tool to run with the '-n' option all the time. so like. heads up. 🙈

fr fr, if things are acting weird on a non-sendpage server, the -n thing is probably why. keep that in your back pocket.

snpp is free software; it can be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License. free as in freedom, periodt 🕊️

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-08, straight from the SNPP(1p) corner of the manual-verse. go send some pages, you've got this 🫶📟✨

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