From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 07:47:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06015 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.castlenet.com (ns1.castlenet.com [209.63.23.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05970 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:47:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) Received: from ip65.castlenet.com (ip65.castlenet.com [209.63.23.65]) by ns1.castlenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA20889; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:53:14 GMT From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: Dan Welch Cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG, WELCHDW@truth.wofford.edu Subject: Re: modem auto answer periods Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 15:51:17 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@castlenet.com Message-ID: <34dbdf02.86740447@castlenet.com> References: <980205071812.21000268@mail.wofford.edu> In-Reply-To: <980205071812.21000268@mail.wofford.edu> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA05976 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 7:18:12 -0500, you wrote: You could use mgetty... >What's the best way to turn auto-answer on and off automatically at >specified times? It's clear that cron does this job; what I seek is >an appropriate way to handle the modem. I tried having cron just >echo the command sequences (e.g. ats0=0) to the modem, but that does >not work well for some modems: after a few cycles of this they get >out of sync with the system and require manual intervention even >though I am using hardware handshaking. -- Later Science (efinley@castlenet.com)