faxgetty, mgetty and callback

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Hi,

Lorenzo M. Catucci wrote:
> > > 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...

Hmmm, if you want PPP for the callback connection, you can just start pppd
with a "tricky" chat script to hang up the modem, and then call out, and
build up a PPP connection.

No need to bother with any kind of callback here...

> 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? 

no way to do that yet.

gert

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