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Re: Ringconnectd - conflicts with packages that answer the phone..



On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:44:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> David Welton wrote:
> > This provides something I will probably use, so I'd like to make a deb out
> > of it.  
> 
> What about xringd, already in debian:
> 
> Description: Extended Ring Daemon - Monitor phone rings and take action.
>  xringd will monitor a serial line for RING signals and activate various
>  commands when specific "ring-delay sequences" are detected.
> 
> Looks like the same functionality.

Actually, xringd may provide more.  You can specify any command you
want run when any of several ring patterns are detected.

> > However, there are also other packages which monitor the phone line.  What
> > should ringconnectd conflict with?
> 
> We don't have a phone-line-monitor virtual package. I question if such a
> thing is needed, becuase you can have multiple modems and phone lines on one 
> computer, and have xringd on one, ringconnectd on another, etc.

Yes.

David
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