cnd-program doesn't work

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Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:11:51PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> > > Well, how many rings have you configured?  If you tell mgetty "wait for 99
> > > rings", 5 won't be sufficient...
> >
> > I had it configured for 10 rings.  You're saying that it won't run the
> > program unless 10 rings have been reached?  I though the cnd-program was
> > only to decide if the call should be answered or not and the rings was
> > for went mgetty tries to answer the phone.
> 
> mgetty (up to 1.1.19) will wait for the number of RINGs, then look at the
> caller ID file, then run cnd-program, and then answer the phone (or refuse
> the call).
> 
> This is in most circumstances the correct solution - if you want to wait
> for 10 RINGs, and the phone stops after 3 RINGs, there is no need to run
> an external program if you're not going to answer *anyway*, is it? - In
> your scenario, this won't work, but 1.1.20 will use a different approach
> for exactly that reason...

I guess I'll need to wait for 1.1.20...  I just wanted to capture the
CallerID information and use smbclient to report it to several other
computers.

-Paul