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Re: Dial-in setup questions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Fri Oct 30 09:01:43 1998

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:46:22 +0100
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
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At 13:56 1998-10-29 -0500, Toby Herring wrote:
>I have a modem connected to the server that I need to set up to allow people
>to dial-in using a good old-fashioned dial-up terminal emulator (i.e.
>ProComm, PowerTerm, etc.)  But I absolutely cannot figure out how to set the
>system up to ANSWER the phone when it rings and begin a session.

Read the Serial-HOWTO. Then install a getty (I use mgetty) and configure
the respawn line in inittab as described in the HOWTO.


 Tony
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