[hobbit] OT: Anybody Here Use Qpage?

[Andy France]

Hi Al,

Thanks for the info - sadly, for me qpage 3.2 does the same as 3.3 :-(

Cheers,
Andy.

"Jeffcoat, Al" wrote on 26/04/2005 01:36:16:

> Hi,

> I was never able to get qpage-3.3 working on AIX, everything looked
> ok, compiled clean, etc,etc.  It's been a long time, but if I
> remember correctly, it was similar to your problem.  The fix for me
> was going from qpage-3.3, to qpage-3.2, and it worked fine then.

> You can dl from the same place, just change it to qpage-3.2, ie:

> http://www.qpage.org/download/qpage-3.2.tar.Z

> Hope that helps,

> Al
> __________________________________
> Al Jeffcoat
> IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX
> Enterprise SAN and Storage Administrator
> System Programmer II

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy France
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:50 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] OT: Anybody Here Use Qpage?

>
> Hi All,

> We have finally got around to getting a pager for after hours
> notification.  Seems that email to SMS isn't that great when your SMTP
> gateway is the server in trouble :-)

> I have downloaded and compiled qpage (http://www.qpage.org), and it seems
> to work OK - except it throws the following error:

> bash-3.00# qpage -d -q 60
> giving up root privileges
> becoming user 'daemon'
> /etc/qpage.cf(4): unexpected: <administrator = andy at zespri.com>
> /etc/qpage.cf(6): unexpected: <queuedir = /var/spool/qpage>
> /etc/qpage.cf(8): unexpected: <modem = zyxel>
> /etc/qpage.cf(9): unexpected: <device = /dev/cua/a>
> /etc/qpage.cf(10): unexpected: <initcmd = ATZ>
> /etc/qpage.cf(11): unexpected: <dialcmd = ATDT>
> /etc/qpage.cf(13): unexpected: <service = TelecomNZ>
> /etc/qpage.cf(14): unexpected: <device = zyxel>
> /etc/qpage.cf(15): unexpected: <phone = 0264001283>
> /etc/qpage.cf(16): unexpected: <msgprefix = false>
> /etc/qpage.cf(18): unexpected: <pager = support>
> /etc/qpage.cf(19): unexpected: <pagerid = 0262749494>
> /etc/qpage.cf(20): unexpected: <service = TelecomNZ>
> Error reading configuration file

> So it seems it can read the config file OK, but just doesn't like the
> contents.  I read the sample in the man page and can't see any issues.

> I am running on Solaris 9 x86, and compiled qpage from source using gcc
> 3.4.3 (installed as a package from http://www.blastwave.org).

> I have emailed the qpage author but have not had a response.  Does anyone
> else here have experience with qpage?  Especially getting the config to
> work!

> TIA,
> Andy

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