[ILUG-BOM] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread H.S.Rai
I wanted to dial telephone number (not using any Internet, just telephone network) and if possible attending phone through PC. I have conexant RD02 D400 [having only one port to connect phone cable, and not second port to connect phone instrument], which is connected to PC through USB port. I

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Shamit Verma
On picking remote phone, I expected that speaker and phone will be used to communicate, but that did not happened. Is it possible to use PC's mic, speaker or head set attached to PC? If yes, which software or what setting? modem-cmd sends only AT commands to modem. To use, PC's sound

[ILUG-BOM] Redirection Query

2010-11-21 Thread Roshan
All, I'm posting a query to the list after quite a long time. I'll ask the question right away: $cat foo 2errorfile bash: foo: No such file or directory According to the above command, if foo doesn't exist and I redirect the error stream to a file, it should be stored in the file and not

[ILUG-BOM] running script only if USB is mounted

2010-11-21 Thread Kshitiz
Hello friends I use rsync to copy my incremental data to an external harddisk every 5 minutes using cron. However, if the external harddisk, connected to the USB port is disconnected, the root partition fills up. I need your help to create a proper script that does the following: Before

[ILUG-BOM] Incremental Backup using rsync

2010-11-21 Thread Kshitiz
Dear Friends Can anyone help me write a script for incremental backup using rsync to create multiple restore-point-backup that can be easily restored? I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Mitul Limbani
Hello, Sorry for top posting, my phone doesn't allow me to start writing from below. Anyway, I think as you said, its a MoDem and they understand AT command set and send data only when they get connected on the remote end. In your case you need some external application like Asterisk and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Shamit Verma
In your case you need some external application like Asterisk and also external hardware (which is not just a Voice Modem) which can send voice traffic using standard telephone signaling (like Ground Start or Loop Start) Modem's cant do any of the above activity, however I have a device

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redirection Query

2010-11-21 Thread rajee...@gmail.com
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Roshan kubuntu...@gmail.com wrote: All, I'm posting a query to the list after quite a long time. I'll ask the question right away: $cat foo 2errorfile bash: foo: No such file or directory Aah, the subtleties of shell plumbing First, you need to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] running script only if USB is mounted

2010-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 22 Nov 2010, Kshitiz wrote: I use rsync to copy my incremental data to an external harddisk every 5 minutes using cron. However, if the external harddisk, connected to the USB port is disconnected, the root partition fills up. I need your help to create a proper script that does the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 22 Nov 2010, Shamit Verma wrote: But basic voice calling should be possible with this modem itself. Most modern modems (by modern I mean compared to the 2400bps Microteks we used to use back in the early 1990s) have audio handling through AT commands. Hypothetically it should be

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Incremental Backup using rsync

2010-11-21 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
2010/11/22 Kshitiz kshitij_ko...@hotmail.com: I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in which 1 full backup followed by 24 hourly incremental backups, interspersed with 7 daily incremental

Re: [ILUG-BOM] running script only if USB is mounted

2010-11-21 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
2010/11/22 Kshitiz kshitij_ko...@hotmail.com: Before running the rsync copying script, I want to    a) Add some statement that would check if the external harddisk is attached and mounted.    b) If not, it should be mounted before the copying script is run to copy only to this external

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redirection Query

2010-11-21 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
2010/11/22 Nachiketa Sadhu sa...@iitb.ac.in: Roshan wrote: cat  foo 2errorfile On my system it does redirect to the errorfile. Strange. Which system would that be? Can you please show us a pastebin? Binand -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] running script only if USB is mounted

2010-11-21 Thread Nadeem M. Khan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan bin...@gmail.com wrote: All mounted filesystems have an entry in /proc/mounts. Your script can take advantage of this. if ! grep -q /backup /proc/mounts; then    if ! mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /backup; then        exit 1; # Mount failed,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redirection Query

2010-11-21 Thread Nachiketa Sadhu
Roshan wrote: cat foo 2errorfile On my system it does redirect to the errorfile. Please also see

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Incremental Backup using rsync

2010-11-21 Thread Nadeem M. Khan
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan bin...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/22 Kshitiz kshitij_ko...@hotmail.com: I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in which 1 full backup followed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Mukund Deshmukh
But basic voice calling should be possible with this modem itself. Most modern modems (by modern I mean compared to the 2400bps Microteks we used to use back in the early 1990s) have audio handling through AT commands. Hypothetically it should be possible to write a program that captures

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Noname.conf talk submissions now open!

2010-11-21 Thread G Karunakar
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:42 PM, gaurav chaturvedi gaurav.p.chaturv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm one of the members of the organising team for Noname.conf, which is a 2-day event to be held at Bangalore in mid-December 2010 and will consist of talks, workshops and discussions around all

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Noname.conf talk submissions now open!

2010-11-21 Thread gaurav chaturvedi
Why not fix the event date too!.. Because the venue hasn't given us confirmation yet, for the date. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Landline phone through PC

2010-11-21 Thread Akshay Mishra
2010/11/22 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org On Monday 22 Nov 2010, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: Most modern modems (by modern I mean compared to the 2400bps Microteks we used to use back in the early 1990s) have audio handling through AT commands. Hypothetically it should be