Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 15:51:17 GMT From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: Dan Welch <WELCHDW@truth.wofford.edu> Cc: QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG, WELCHDW@truth.wofford.edu Subject: Re: modem auto answer periods Message-ID: <34dbdf02.86740447@castlenet.com> In-Reply-To: <980205071812.21000268@mail.wofford.edu> References: <980205071812.21000268@mail.wofford.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?34dbdf02.86740447>