1.1.21 : Caller ID without answeing?

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

Jason, I have entered your script, as is, and it does not seem to work.   I have appended "exit (1); to the end, with no luck either.  In both cases, not only is the secondary data line answered, but vgetty also answers the first line.

Truly though, I do not understand exactly what it is supposed to do.  I have basic programming experience, and can make sense of the forking statement... but it's
greater implications are beyond me.  

Could you please mail me your actual program.cnd, that I may take a look at it?

I've also set rings to 2, in both voice, conf, and mgetty.config.
--

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:32:13   Jason White wrote:
>
>>Is 1.1.21 able to Do caller ID without actually picking up the call?
>>
>>I believe the previous versions weren't able to do this.
>
>  Sure you could by using 'cnd-program' calling a program that always
>returned a status of 1 and by setting 'rings' to a number greater than
>that of any device that may answer the phone on its own such as your FAX
>modem or answering machine.  This assumes, of course that your modem was
>already set to pass caller-id (AT#CID=1 on Rockwell modems).
>
>>(I want all calls ID'd, but only calls on the second distinctive ring answered
>>).
>
>Here's the relevent bits of a perl script I use to get caller-id for all
>calls and make the fax modem answer only if its a distinctive ring call
>(or mgetty is sent a SIGUSR1):
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>$tty        = $ARGV[0];
>$number     = $ARGV[1];
>$name       = $ARGV[2];
>$line       = $ARGV[3];
>$num_called = $ARGV[4];
>
># $line = 0 if mgetty is forced to answer by catching a SIGUSR1
># $line = 1 for a "normal" call
># $line = 2 for a distictive ring call
>if ($line != 1) {
>  fork && exit(0); # tell FAX modem to answer
>}
>
>#
># Process caller-id information here
>#
>[...]
>
>I do several things with the caller-id information (broadcast over the
>LAN, page two people, stash the caller-id info in a special logfile), so I
>fork() as soon as possible if it's not a normal call and return a status
>code of zero, thereby causing the modem to answer the call ASAP.  Note: I
>have 'rings 2' in my mgetty.conf file.
>
>Prior to 1.2.21, if you wanted to grab the caller-id information you
>always had to wait for the second ring before 'cnd-program' was invoked
>since:
>
>  1) the caller-id information comes between the first and second ring
>  2) mgetty had no way to call cnd-program immediately after collecting
>     the caller-id information.
>
>With 1.2.21 and a 'rings 2' in your mgetty.conf file, cnd-program will get
>called immediately after the caller-id information is collected by faking
>a RING.  Since mgetty things that it's seen two actual rings, cnd-program
>is called before the second actual ring.
>
>Gert: thanks for implementing this feature.  Mgetty just keeps getting
>      better and better!
>
>-Jason
>
>--
>       Jason D. White                http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jdwhite
>     jdwhite@iastate.edu                 finger for other information
>    Iowa State University            (PGP pub key, Anon FTP, US Mail Addr)
>Durham Center Operations Staff       Strive for excellence, not perfection.
>


--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.