BEACON(8)

💖 BEACON(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the BEACON(8) page from the Linux System Managers Manual ✨ this one is all about sending periodic messages out on an AX.25 port, and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

beacon — transmit periodic messages on an AX.25 port 📡

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

beacon [-c <src_call>] [-d <dest_call>[digi ..]] [-f] [-H] [-l] [-m]
       [-s] [-t interval] [-v] port “message”

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so beacon sends the message text out on an AX.25 port every thirty minutes, no cap 🕒. The message is addressed to IDENT, and it goes out using the AX.25 callsign of the port you specified on the command line. literally that's the whole vibe 💫.

Most of the time your message text is gonna have spaces and/or other characters in it, so please please please wrap the message text in quotes — that way it gets passed to the beacon program untranslated. bestie, quote your message, i am begging 🙏💖.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c — sets the source callsign for beacons. if you don't, the default is to use the interface callsign 🎀
• -d — sets the destination callsign for beacons. default is IDENT. optional bonus: digipeaters may follow, separated with spaces. use it like -d "DEST DIGI1 DIGI2 .." 🛰️
• -f — do not fork into the background. stay right here, main character energy 👑
• -l — turns on logging of errors to the system log; default is off 🪵
• -H — start interval relative to the hour ⏰
• -m — changes the destination address to MAIL and sends the message text once only. this option overrides any destination callsign given with the -d option 💌
• -s — sends the message text once only 🎯
• -t interval — the time interval between messages. the interval is given in minutes, and the default is thirty minutes ⏱️
• -v — display the version 🏷️

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ax25(4), axports(5) — go read these too, iykyk 📚✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Alan Cox GW4PTS <alan@cymru.net>
• Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>
• David Brooke G6GZH <db@fusk.demon.co.uk>

okay bye bestie, this page is from Linux, dated 4 July 2016 — mwah 💋💖