remote access.

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:44:46 +0200


hi,

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 06:45:29AM +1000, Benjamin Lee wrote:
> can i get vgetty (or mgetty) to *remember* the number of RINGxS it
> recieves?

It will log everything :-)

> i want to do something like what we used to do as a kid. ring a number a
> few times, hang up, ring again hang up. and the person on the ringing side
> knew it was u. and would do something appropriately. e.g. come and pick
> you up! ;-)
> 
> so this is what i want...

"ringback", see the description in the mgetty manual.  Or write something
that analyzes the "phone stopped ringing, rings=<n>" pattern in the mgetty
log file.

gert
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