faxgetty, mgetty and callback

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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Lorenzo M. Catucci wrote:
> [..]
> > > There are a couple of other callback packages out there, maybe one of them
> > > will work.
> > I'm going to try and adapt callback-0.9 to spawn mgetty instead of login,
> > but in doing so I'd like to have a little help:
> 
> Why bother? Just call login, and everything should work fine.
>
login is not able to give me the autoPPP feature I love this much...
mgetty is better! The problem is that callback-0.9 doesn't accept any
command argument, and I'll need to dive much deeper than I thought...
Maybe I could try writing a wrapper shell script, to have it reopen
mgetty, and then doing the calling back, but now comes the problem with
mgetty.config: if I have a 'special' configuration for a direct connection
which mgetty got from faxgetty, how do I tell the fresh started mgetty to
ignore mgetty.config, and start in the usual way? 
> 
> > may you please tell me which arguments is callback called with from
> > mgetty? 
> 
> Depends on what you write into "login.config". Mgetty hasn't anything
> "built in". So you can just enter any arguments you like into that file.

This is really good news!

Yours,


lorenzo



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