Thanks for the pointers from both you and Ray. And to David Engle for the Debian Package. I have done some fiddling around and have a work around on your two points.
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:48:52AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) > > 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did > not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as > /dev/ttyS1 1. This is probably the best solution, but I am not very good at recompiling things. So what I did was link /dev/ttyS1 (my setup) to /dev/modem and it started working fine. I hope this was right as I issued the following command in the /dev dir: ln -s /dev/ttyS1 modem I now have a soft link to the ttyS1 to the modem. > > 2. When you start pon it resets the modem and after you do poff, xringd > will NOT detect incoming calls. I did not find any clever way to overcome > this problem, except making cron execute > > start-stop-daemon -stop -s HUP xringd > > every hour. This resets xringd and thus the modem. > > I do not know how generic such a situation is, but I thought you might > find it interesting.. > 2. On this one, I used Ray's idea of using the ip-up directive in /etc/ppp/ip-up but I expanded it a little. I ended up adding "/etc/init.d/xringd stop" in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script and when I log off, I added "/etc/init.d/xringd start" in the /etc/ppp/ip-down script. This works great and RESETs and starts monitoring the ttyS1 port after ppp is down. The reason I stopped xringd with the ip-up, is basically I know it isn't going to be used and why waste resources when it isn't needed. Thanks to David Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for setting up the package it self and using the /etc/init.d/xringd script. I guess if it hadn't been for the initial debian setup, and your's and Ray's pointers, I would have been pretty well lost and would probably never got it working right. But as far as I can tell everything is working like I expected it to. > > ZORO Thanks to everyone that replied and helped me out on this one. There wasn't too much available on xringd on the net as I looked and couldn't find very much information Mike Acklin Debian User