Aaron mgetty has this functionality; mgetty+sendfax that is. It is called ring twice mode and you use the -r option in inittab after mgetty or optiosn in config files see info pages. On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:28:12PM +1000, Aaron Howell wrote: > There was a (now very old) program called getty_ps which did this. > It had what it called ring back mode where the modem would watch for a call, then a break then another call. > It'd answer the second call, so long as it came within a certain amount of time. > The first call would go unanswered (to your answering machine). > I'm no sure where you'd get it these days, or even if it would still work with the current serial driver in the kernel, > but thats the only way i know to achieve this. > Your phone company might be able to provide you with a distinctive ring service, > and if it can, you could use mgetty to answer a call appropriately > based on the ring pattern your modem receives (data calls would get answered before the answering machine had time to wake up to the presence of a call, > and voice calls could be ignored, or, you could do away with the answering machine altogether and answer voice calls with mgetty+voice. > Regards > Aaron > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:19:41PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I have been seriously considering the idea of setting up a dial-up server for myself, in the event that I want to access my machine, > > but have no access to a network, only to a phone line. > > > > My problem is though that I have an answering machine, and only 1 phone line. > > > > Is there some way to setup init/agetty so that the modem would answer the phone on every other call? > > > > A scenario of what I mean by that is as follows. > > > > 1. I call in, and remotely disable my answering machine. > > > > 2. I call in with a modem this time, and say my server is set to pick up on the 6th ring, which it does. > > I then login, do whatever I got to do, and end the connection. > > > > 3. I call in again, but the modem knows this is another call, and doesn't pick up. > > This would give my machine a chance to pick up after 10 rings, so that I can reenable it. > > > > Then, in the future, if I disabled the machine, and let the phone ring 6 times, the modem would pick up. > > > > Then, if I called in once more, it wouldn't pick up, and so on. > > > > Could someone please tell me if what I'm suggesting is possible, and how > > I can accomplish it? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Greg > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
