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Re: uugetty RINGBACK *still* broken??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 25 14:16:23 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:12:12 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <365C4E46.B9E5EF42@mindless.com>; from Fred Whipple on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 06:36:54PM +0000
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Fred Whipple writes:
[...]
> (Sorry it took me so long to get this stuff tested.) In fact, RH5.2's
> uugetty is STILL broken as far as I can see. I had to go all the way
> back to the getty_ps-2.0.7h-4 package. I believe this package came from
> Red Hat 4.1. So, it seems that RINGBACK has been broken since version
> 4.2. I've complained about it every time I've upgraded, too! :-P
>
> Red Hat, will this feature ever again work?
>
> So, does there exist another package which will do the same that Red Hat
> *does* have working? The RINGBACK feature let's you configure uugetty
> to not answer the phone the first time someone calls, but after they
> hang-up and call again. I.e. you call, let it ring a couple times, hang
> up, call back, and *then* it picks up (and lets you start your ppp
> session, etc.)
Hm, I wonder if you could simply download the source rpm, change the
corresponding setting in the spec file and rebuild the binary rpm (and then
make that new binary public... ;-) ). If it's only a matter of compile time
options, it should be possible.
Thomas
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