---
name: "sendpage"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "sendpage-server"
version: "1.0.3-1.1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sendpage/1p"
---

# sendpage(1p)

listen for pages via SNPP, and send pages via modem

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

sendpage \[OPTIONS\] \[recipient ...\]

## OPTIONS

- \-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".

- \-q\[R pc\]

  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/sendpage.cf

- \-h

  Display a summary of all the available command line options.

- \-d

  Turn on debugging (like "debug=true" in /etc/sendpage/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/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.

## AUTHOR

Kees Cook \<kees@outflux.net\>

## BUGS

Oh, I bet this code is crawling with them.  :)  I've done my best to  test this code, but I'm only one person.  If you find strange behavior, please let me know.

## COPYRIGHT

sendpage is free software; it can be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

## SEE ALSO

[**perl**(1)](/perl/1.md), [**kill**(1)](/kill/1.md), **Device::SerialPort**(3), **Mail::Send**(3), **Sendpage::KeesConf**(3), **Sendpage::KeesLog**(3), **Sendpage::Modem**(3), **Sendpage::PagingCentral**(3), **Sendpage::PageQueue**(3), **Sendpage::Page**(3), **Sendpage::Recipient**(3), **Sendpage::Queue**(3)