Re: On alarms and paging...

Andrew Cowell (cowell@cs.utk.edu)
Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:59:19 -0500 

From: Don.Harper@Chron.com (Don Harper)
Subject: On alarms and paging...
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:13:11 -0600 (CST)

> 50 percent of the time.  Not good. :(  Does anyone have any working scripts or
> code to use a Sun workstation to page someone with a normal numeric pager?  Or
> a clue on what to do?  Our telecom guy has no clues for me.

Here's what I use, Don:

I use uucp's cu on a 4.1.3_U1 (and formerly 4.1.1_U1 sun3).

Outgoing only device:
corona:[/blue/homes/cowell] ls -alg /dev/cua0 
crw-r--r--  1 uucp     staff     12, 128 Mar 28 14:01 /dev/cua0

Here's the script I use:
corona:[/blue/homes/cowell] cat amanda/notify/notify.me 
#!/bin/sh

# Corona the machine the modem is on
rsh corona cu $1


Here's one way I use it (with my mh .maildelivery file), I have a script 
monitor our backup software logs and mail me if there's a problem.
: <-- irrelevant stuff deleted
subject "AMANDA PROBLEM"   ^ R "/blue/homes/cowell/amanda/notify/notify.me bp-am-amcheck"
:

And lastly, the /etc/uucp/Systems file with things I can call:
:
# Example:
#       cuuxb Any ACU 1200 chicago8101242 in:--in: nuucp word: panzer
#
# See the System and Network Administration Manual for details
#
# Andy Cowell's home number
home Any ACU 2400 8=6738892
# Andy Cowell's beeper number
bp Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,
# First n char's must be unique...
bp-am-amcheck Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,000100001
bp-am-runtime Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,000100666
bp-am-disklist Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,000100665
bp-wakeup Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,111101111
bp-problem Any ACU 2400 8=6318483,,,,524710666
                        ^^^      ^   ^ -This is the code that shows on beeper
                        |||      |- Commas tell it to wait (give time for
                        |||      |- service to pick up phone)
                        |||- The actual pager number
                        ||- = means wait until dial tone, I think
                        |- Get outside our pbx

This works fine for me.  I hope it helps!

--
Andrew E. B. Cowell <cowell@cs.utk.edu> | "And the mountainside opened, a
Sys Admin, Computer Science Department  |  moment to pray for all the souls
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville  |  he'd come to save...now he couldn't
WWW: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cowell/     |  save himself" [Legendary Pink Dots]