Welcome to CUTs!
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!
The download is HERE (tar.gz)
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, ...
Et cetera.
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! =)
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