CUTs is a procmail "hack" that basically enables you to use a normal cellphone as a Unix/Linux terminal. From anywhere.

If you have a cellphone capable of short text messages, a cellphone service provider that enables you to send and receive emails as short messages (or similar), a computer connected to the Internet (running sendmail/procmail) and a domain, ... Then you can have access to an online Unix/Linux box from anywhere, aswell!

Here are a small list of things that I have done from my cellphone:

• Surf the web with lynx.
• List files, check available disk space, check if certain processes (apache) are running, etc.
• Download large files to my home server via FTP, while on the bus.
• Linux kernel compile (23 Aug, 2002 ! First one ever from a cellphone, I assume).
• HTML-formatted emails using my real email-address in the 'From:' header.
• Pings, traceroutes.
• Sent emails to myself to help me remember important things.
• Written small sh/perl scripts, ...

History

I had a prototype of this back in early 2000, but the server I developed it on had a disk crash or something. I can't even remember for sure. Then I wrote it again from scratch this summer (2002) but I wanted to get some better pictures before I released it... Well that hasn't happened in almost 3 months so I'll just put it here now, crappy pictures or not. =)

I guess the whole concept of using your cellphone to access your Unix/Linux box via the Internet isn't as cool as it was back in early 2000, now that we have WAP, GPRS/CDMA, and 3G on the way... But I still get some "Wow's" when I show it to people (err, fellow nerds, I mean).
Released under GPL licence... well, enjoy! =)