I asked: > Has anyone had any success with getting vgetty to dial out? Thanks to the people who replied. It's working now. What I didn't realise is that if a vm script starts with the appropriate line ("#!/usr/local/bin/vm shell"), then you can just run the script; you don't have to activate it with a virtual ring, and you don't have to have vgetty in your inittab. Obvious, really. Edmund