Open Source Paging Software

[Al Sparks]

Does anyone have some sort of paging service?  Is there open source SW
out there?

We mostly have Dell's 1850 and 2850 slabs.  How easy would it be to get
a modem card that would work with that?
     === Al

[Paul Lemmons]

Look at "qpage" http://www.qpage.org/

We have used it under BSD, Fedora and AIX. It has been bulletproof.

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:15 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:

>  Does anyone have some sort of paging service?  Is there open source
> SW
>  out there?
>  
>  We mostly have Dell's 1850 and 2850 slabs.  How easy would it be to get
>  a modem card that would work with that?
>       === Al
>  
>  
>   
Paul Lemmons
Lead Systems Software Engineer
TMC HealthCare

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
>  Look at "qpage" http://www.qpage.org/
>
>  We have used it under BSD, Fedora and AIX. It has been bulletproof.
>
>  On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:15 -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> > Does anyone have some sort of paging service?  Is there open source SW
> > out there?
> >
> > We mostly have Dell's 1850 and 2850 slabs.  How easy would it be to get
> > a modem card that would work with that?
> >      === Al
> >      
Starting before 2000 I used qpage, and the scheduling in it was never 
y2k compliant, so I patched it with a work-around.  I provided the patch 
to Thomas Dwyer III, but he never updated his site for reasons unknown 
to me.

I later emailed him asking whether he would consider releasing the 
license to be maintained by others.  And that received no answer either.

Attached find a .src.rpm I last updated in December 2002 with the patch 
and spec file which I wrote, and the unaltered qpage-3.3.tar.Z 
sufficient to build the patched qpage.  I have not attempted to use it 
recently, but I did verify minutes ago that "rpmbuild --rebuild 
qpage-3.3-1.src.rpm" still successfully builds a qpage rpm which does 
install, on FC5.

Chris

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