v/mgetty questions.

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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:16:33PM -0700, xy3@email.com wrote:
> #1
> 
> If I set my rings to 5 (so I can pick up the phone while I am around) how can I 
> get mgetty/vgetty to always log the caller ID (by running the cnd-program) after 
> 2 rings?  If the phone doesn't ring 5 times, vgetty doesn't run the cnd-program.

You can't, right now.  The trick is (to wait for 1.1.22 or) to call the
cnd-program immediately, say by setting "rings 2", and then have the 
cnd-program delay for 30 seconds or so, until the right RING count has
been reached...  not really pretty, but will work.

With 1.1.22 or 1.1.23, you can setup mgetty/vgetty to call cnd-program
immediately, and answer later.

[..]
> Once I get #1 working is there a program that I can run from my linux box to 
> send out this caller ID info after ring 2 to all Windows boxes on the lan (some 
> type of automatic popup window box? (preferably configurable - a pop up window 
> that doesn't take focus and saves window position - or something like that))

No idea.

> #3
> 
> Does the vgetty message_program have to be an .sh script?  I tried making my 
> new_voice program a perl script but it didn't seem to work.  I have to call the 
> perl script from an initial new_voice.sh shell script.  Is this a true limit, or 
> did I do something wrong?

No, calling perl directly should work, but you have to change
"voice_shell" in voice.conf for that.

gert
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