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callback 2.04
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Aug 9 23:42:29 1995
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 17:17:51 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Frank B. Brokken" <frank@suffix.icce.rug.nl>
Subject: callback 2.04
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Callback for Linux, release 2.04
================================
We just uploaded to ftp.icce.rug.nl (directory pub/unix), sunsite.unc.edu
and tsx-11.mit.edu the latest release of our callback programs:
version 2.04.
The callback programs can be used to setup a callback-system, where a
linux-computer acting as a call-in site calls another computer, from which
a modem-connection is requested.
Apart from the obvious financial aspects (i.e., if you live in that part of
the world where you have to pay for (local) phonecalls), callback provides
enhanced security: entry to the server is only granted from specified
callback phonenumbers.
The changes compared to the former upload (2.00) are:
1.Modification of cb's usage info so that it displays a minimal usage
info even if the callback.setup file isn't available.
2 Defining the callback.setup entry 'diallogfile:', logging the
times, targetnames and phonenumbers that are called back.
3 The display of the 'extra', 'direct' and normal callback destinations
can be controlled from the callback.setup file. By default the 'extra'
and 'direct' entries are not displayed in the lists cblogin presents.
The 'cb list' command always displays all entries. In the
callback.setup defaults section, the keywords
extra
direct
and
nodestinations
can be used to control, respectively, the display of 'extra' and
'direct' destinations, and the suppression of the display of the
'normal' destinations.
The callback documentation is also obtainable from ftp.icce.rug.nl,
(directory /pub/http), and can be inspected from our WWW-server
http://www.icce.rug.nl.
Questions or comments about callback should be directed to:
Frank B. Brokken: frank@icce.rug.nl
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