Re: Quick Question
Zilvinas Valinskas <swoop@bkg.stp.lt> writes:
| At 07:00 1998.09.25 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote:
| >Hello Everyone,
| >
| > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a
| >way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it
| >will monitor the port and if it sees "RING", the system will automagically
| >start pon?
| >
| > What I am trying to do is have my home computer on and connected to
| >a separate line, and be offline. Then if I need something from my computer
| >from work or somewhere else besides home, I can dial my home number, the
| system
| >will see an incoming call, the start the ppp/pon so I can telnet, ftp, web,
| >to my machine. Kinda like diald in reverse.
| It's mgetty. You need to update your inittab to run mgetty on boot ( or
| when edited just run a : init q :) reread init tab ;) and that's all )
| Setup up to listen /dev/ttySx ( x=0,1, => com1, com2 in dos ). More
| information /usr/doc/mgetty
| Debian almost configured to handle incoming calls ;) just update inittab :)
| And it will start automatically pppd ;) That's all.
|
| also look at /usr/doc/pppd
| there are some samples.
| >
| > Has anyone ever heard of such? Just wondering as I was looking
| >through dselect and didn't see anything. I am running Debian Slink, diald,
| >pppd, I have slip and ppp compiled into the 2.0.35 kernel. If you have,
| >please let me know. Thanks...
Not mgetty. That's if you want to run a PPP server, among other
things. What you want is xringd. It allows you to call your computer
and run any command you want, including whatver you use to initiate
your PPP link, depending on the ring pattern. It's probably in slink,
certainly in hamm.
Gary
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