On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Well, I don't do anything like this yet (my modem isn't fancy enough), > but here's how I read the mgetty info pages: > > Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For caller id, what format does mgetty expect it to be in? My modem > > supports 'readable format' (#CID=1) and 'ascii printable characters in > > hex' (#CID=2). Also, how do I tell mgetty to use caller id and look at > > the dialin.config file? > > Looking at the mgetty info pages, I'd guess that the readable format > is your best bet; mgetty will use caller ID automatically if your > modem supports it and if there's anything in the /etc/dialin.config
/etc/dialin.config or /etc/mgetty/dialin.config (Debian package)? A default file is in /etc/mgetty, but mgetty seems to ignore it and aways answer the phone.. I have "!all" on the last line. > file. Also, the docs warn that you need to have mgetty connect only > after the second ring, as that's when caller ID information is often > sent. (I think this might be modem-specific) No, caller id is handled by the phone company. They send the information between the first and second ring. > > Finally, how can I monitor what mgetty is doing? I want smbclient to send > > a message with the caller id strings to another machine when a voice call > > is detected. > > Monitor the mgetty logs (/var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyxx) - another option is > to figure out what mgetty sends to syslog, and set up a fifo to catch > that. For example, adding: > *.* |/etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo > to /etc/syslog.conf, then doing > mkfifo /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo > and then having some program read lines out of /etc/mgetty/syslog.fifo > will allow that program to see anything that gets logged (by any > program) to the syslog. You'll probably want to narrow down the *.* > to what you actually need once you figure out what class and severity > of the relevant mgetty messages are. The problem with that method is that I'd need to have a high level of debugging for mgetty to even show the modem responces (caller id info, etc).. Several months ago, someone told me another way, but I lost the message.. Thanks -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
