Re: flexfax: mgetty

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Tom wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > mgetty plays with HylaFAX very nicely for me.
> > > >
> > > > > Does someone has tried it and know how to do to make it work?
> > > >
> > > > Use getty. Check my notes at http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/linux/
> > > > for more details.
> > > >
> > > Can getty set up autoPPP such that the Windows client doesn't need to
> > > script the login process?  Didn't see that in your docs.  If so, yes,
> > > you could scrap mgetty without losing anything.
> >
> > Ooofff. Yes, it can, either by setting up your $homedir/.login file to
> > check for being on a known modem port and auto-starting PPP, or by
> > assigning a separate user-name with a ppp-login script as the shell.
> >
> > Each has issues, but both are feasible and work reasonably well. They're
> > just not the easiest things to set up robustly.
> 
>   Many getty's will now autodetect PPP.  This is a very robust way of
> doing it.  See your getty and getytab manpage.
> 
That's most interesting.  Some day, I'll look into that.

Mine is still too primitive for this; nothing in the man page about it. 
It does have the '-l' switch for starting an alternative login program,
but I doubt if this would be sufficient to make stuff work.

Of course, mgetty itself is an alternative getty that does this!  :-)