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Re: Quick Question



On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:53:49AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> 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 

Brian, 

	That sounds more like what I need. I was looking over the doc and
didn't really see anything about my original question. But I am glad that I
did get mgetty as I was going to work with faxes also. But that was another
project on my TODO list. 

	Again thanks for the info


Mike Acklin


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