turn off modem during the day

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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Mate Wierdl wrote:

> I have my modem in my office set up for dialin via mgetty (Linux
> Redhat 4.1, mgetty mgetty-1.0.0). 
> 
> The University has a voicemail system which I would like to use while
> I am in the office, otherwise I 'd like mgetty and the modem answer
> the phone when I leave. 
> 
> Can I do this simply without playing with the mgetty entry in inittab
> and rebooting (or init q). What if I just simply turn the modem off
> while I am in the office? Would mgetty get confused after a while, or
> it will just report to the log file that the modem is off, and it will
> get back to business as soon as the modem is turned on?

I just use a couple of crontab entries for mine:

30 17 * * mon-fri rm /etc/nologin.ttyS5 2> /dev/null
30 7 * * mon-fri  touch /etc/nologin.ttyS5

The nologin.ttyname file tells mgetty not to answer that line. You don't
have to 'init -q' or anything - mgetty checks for the file everytime the
phone rings, as far as I can tell.
 
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