Re: [Plug] callback(or not back but out)

["Jason M. Lenthe" <lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu>]

I've never done anything like this before, but it looks like you can do it
with mgetty-voice package.  Although the version of mgetty that came with
my distro (debian 2.1) doesn't have much documentation on mgetty-voice
(surely there is more now), what I gather is that you can set up mgetty to
be an answering machine for you.  I think there are also config options to
have a shell script called when a message is left.  So you could write that
script to, say, cron a pon command 30 seconds in the future or whatever.

Jason

At 09:21 PM 7/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a little something I'd like to be able to do. I'm almost positive
>its possible but i'd like to know where to start.
>
>I have a dialup ISP that I obviously can't be connected to at all times.
>I'd like to be able to get into my box from a friends houses, school,
>etc. So I figured I could set something up so all i'd have to do is pick
>up a phone, call my box, hang up, then it calls my ISP and connects. I
>already have a little script which uploads my IP to my website so that
>isn't a problem.
>
>I just would like to know what utilities I would need to setup something
>that could answer a call, hang up, then call my ISP so a few minutes later
>I could telnet into my box from somewhere else. All I need is somewhere to
>start, but more would be helpful.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Xtian
>
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