blink(1)
NAME
blink - Blinks keyboard LEDs for various purposes.
SYNOPSIS
- blink [-c] [--capslockled] [-h] [--help] [-m s] [--machine=s] [-n]
- [--numlockled] [-r n] [--rate=n] [-s] [--scrolllockled] [-t n] [--tcp-port=n] [-v] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
The programs blink(1) and blinkd(8) help you to count or to monitor
things like incoming calls on your voice box or incoming faxes. E.g.
they blink Scroll-Lock LED for incoming voice calls and Num-Lock LED
for incoming faxes. Normally, all three LEDs (Num-Lock, Caps-Lock, and
Scroll-Lock) are handled. The blink client will ask the blinkd server
to blink the specified LED with the given rate.
USAGE
On Debian GNU/Linux blinkd is started without any options from
/etc/init.d/blinkd, unless the system administrator changed this. See
blinkd(8) for more information. If you like to count something, e.g.
incoming calls on your voice mailbox, incoming faxes in your spool or
whatever, just write a script, that calls blink --numlockled --rate n
for the first thing you like to count and blink --scrolllockled --rate
m for the second thing you like to count and maybe blink --capslockled
--rate l for the third. n, m and l are the current numbers of things
you like to count.
BLINK OPTIONS
- -c --capslockled
- Use the Caps-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, no
other rate value than zero is allowed. - -h --help
- Gives a short help on the command line options and exit.
- -m s --machine=s
- Use the machine s, where the keyboard LEDs will blink.
- -n --numlockled
- Use the Num-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, no
other rate value than zero is allowed. - -r n --rate=n
- Sets the blink rate to the given value n. This can be either a
number between 0 and 29, inclusively, or either a + or a character, incrementing or decrementing the current rate by one. If you specify any other rate than zero, you have also to specify an
LED. - -s --scrolllockled
- Use the Scroll-Lock LED. If none of the three LEDs is specified, no other rate value than zero is allowed.
- -t n --tcp-port=n
- Use the tcp port n on that the blinkd server waits.
- -v --version
- Give a short version information and exit.
EXAMPLES
An example for the use of blinkd with the vbox program (an ISDN
answering machine) is provided in
/usr/share/doc/blinkd/examples/standard.tcl. Another example for use
with the mgetty fax program is provided in
/usr/share/doc/blinkd/examples/new_fax.
AUTHOR
Blinkd/blink is made by W. Martin Borgert <debacle@debian.org>, as well
as this manual page.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1998-2008 W. Martin Borgert and released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public
License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.
A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is available in this
Debian package as /usr/share/doc/blinkd/copyright.
BUGS
Anyone can contact the blinkd server. There is no security mechanism
yet.
These programs seem to run at least on Debian GNU/Linux alpha, arm,
i386, m68k, powerpc, and sparc. Please send me a mail, if it does run
on other platforms or if you need something fixed for another platform.
Internationalization is just in the beginning. Contribute, if you like!
Please tell me about grammatical or spelling errors!
DATE
Version 0.4.8 released on 2008-01-18.
AUTHOR
- W. Martin Borgert
- Author.
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright © 1999-2008 W. Martin Borgert