On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:10:26PM -0700, Keith Morse wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Jake McHenry wrote: > > > Is there a way for me to telnet to a local com port? I want to move my phone > > system connection from my windows server to my linux server if it's > > possible. I didn't see anything in /dev that looked like a com port, found > > parallel ports though... > > > > Sorry for the late post, but I wanted let people know that for doing the > above there is a nifty utility called ttywatch for attaching a process to > a com port and monitoring it. You can even telnet to the tcp port it > assigns and you have a interactive terminal session like minicom or > kermit. I use this to record SMDR from my Panasonic phone system as well > as the voice mail system. Needs to be on a trusted lan though, no > security to speak of. ttywatch was written by one of the Red Hat > developers, Michael Johnson. Find the link to it at freshmeat.net. Must be some kind of ttywatch karma in the air today. I played with this all day on a linux box at work. Nice little util. Thanks to Michael Johnson for this one! -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
