caller id in vgetty

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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 05:22:59AM +0000, Jason wrote:
> I'm in the US (unlike Vaggos) with a USR 33.6 voice modem and I can't
> seem to get vgetty to pull in the caller-id information.  I've used X
> apps like "xcallerid" and "gnuvoice", and they all pull down the
> caller-id information perfectly.  But as I watch the vgetty log, it
> always says:
> 
> ##### message keep, length=00:00:34, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyS3,
> pid=12345

Show more detail.

> My modem dosen't have the AT#CID=1 set by default, so I've added this (
> I think) to the mgetty.config file using "init-chat".
> 
>  # mgetty.config (complete file)
> debug 4
> speed 38400
> port ttyS3
> init-chat "" AT#CID=1 OK
> 
> What I'm trying to do is add $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[1] to a Perl script that
> is already being invoked from the voice.conf file.
> 
> #voice.conf (snippet)
> rings 4
> message_program /etc/voicemail.pl <CallerID> <Name>

Hmmm.  That could be the problem.  "rings" has to be set in mgetty.config.

gert
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