On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Gyepi SAM wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 07:08:08PM -0800, Jacob Joseph wrote:
> > Hello once again. I posted this about a month ago(maybe longer) and was
> > wondering if anyone had some suggestions yet.
> >
> > I would like to be able to have my linux box connect diald ppp0(via
> > diald is fine, so all it would take is a ping or something) upon being
> > called with a normal telephone. It's not a voice modem, so what I was
> > thinking is similar to how mgetty can be set up: say 2 calls in 30 seconds
> > would prompt it. That's what I need, but I have no idea as to how to do it.
> > I somehow need a script that will ping an ip, which brings up the link,
> > after hearing 2 calls on the modem within 30 seconds. I have no programming
> > experience, but is there a program that could be retrofited(mgetty?) to
> > provide such functionality?
>
> This is an old, and I think, twice solved problem. grep around
> freshmeat.net and the mgetty website. I have seen several reports of
> programs that do just this sort of thing.
I have an awk script that does this. If you have not gotten a solution let
me know and I will mail it to you. It is not perfect and requires mgetty and
diald to work. The biggest problem with it is that it uses the mgetty logs
to determine when to connect to the internet. Under redhat those logs get
rotated every night which means you have to restart the ring detector script
every night. finding the process to kill is not always 100% accurate.
I sometimes end up with multiple ring detector process running and need
to kill them by hand. I need to rewrite that part of the script.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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