Re: Quick Question

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Mike Acklin wrote about "Re: Quick Question"
| On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 02:15:12PM +0200, Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
| > 	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.
| 
| Thanks, I will look at it. I don't have it installed but will now! Again,
| thanks for the quick reply...
| 

I think you want xringd.  This a daemon that watches for incoming ring
patterns i.e ring-ring-pause 60 sec.-ring.  Then when a preset ring
pattern is caught it will execute a command for that ring pattern, ie.
execute pon and dialup your isp so you can connect to your machine
over the internet.  You can have an infinite set of ring patterns. 
Mgetty is used for dialin access to your machine. ie. your machine will
answer the phone and try and estabish a modem connection with the
incoming call. 

-- 
Brian 
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