From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 18:14:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from laurasia.com.au (lauras.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939FC15370 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@laurasia.com.au) Received: (from mike@localhost) by laurasia.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA28219; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:28:23 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett Message-Id: <199911090228.KAA28219@laurasia.com.au> Subject: Re: voice mail for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Ronald 'Ko' Klop at "Nov 8, 99 06:57:27 pm" To: ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl (Ronald 'Ko' Klop) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:28:23 +0800 (WST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Empty subject created] > Hi, > > Is there a program which can make a answering machine of a voice modem > for FreeBSD (or running in Linux mode)? > I didn't find it in the /usr/ports/comms. > Can somebody give me a pointer? Have a look at the `mgetty' package. You can find it under: /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax Inside the mgetty package is another program, vgetty, that is meant to be able to use the voice capabilities of *some* modems. I've not tried vgetty (I use mgetty), but according to the documentation that I've read it is quite hard to get voice+fax+data working well on the one modem. You can have any two of the three, but not all! The documentation for mgetty is Linux oriented, but you shouldn't have too many problems using it in a BSD environment. One major difference that comes to mind is that Linux spawns off the mgetty process (when answering the phone) from /etc/inittab, whereas BSD uses /etc/ttys. > > Thanx, > > Please reply by CC: to me also. > > Ronald. > Have Fun Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message