NAME¶
vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty
SYNOPSIS¶
vboxputty -d device [
-f config-file]
[
-c phonenumber] [
-s ring-timeout] [
-w
wait] [
-t redial] [
-r redial-pause]
vboxputty [-
hv]
DESCRIPTION¶
vboxputty is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After
connect, vboxputty is acting exactly like vboxgetty.
vboxputty exits
with 0 if a connection was established, 99 on BUSY.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- display a short help
- -v
- display the version information
- -f config-file
- use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
- -d device
- use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout
- -c phonenumber
- the phonenumber to be called
- -s ring-timeout
- vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait ring-timeout
seconds for the called party to accept the call, if ring-timeout
seconds are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup.
- -w wait
- after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait wait
seconds before starting the tcl-script
- -t redial
- if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get
a connect
- -r redial-pause
- vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials
FILES¶
/usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf
AUTHOR¶
Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>
SEE ALSO¶
the vbox-documentation