vboxputty8
A self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty
Usage
vboxputty -d
device
[-f
config-file]
[-c
phonenumber]
[-s
ring-timeout]
[-w
wait]
[-t
redial]
[-r
redial-pause]
vboxputty [-hv]
Overview
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
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-h -
display a short help
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-v -
display the version information
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-f config-file -
use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
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-d device -
use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout
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-c phonenumber -
the phonenumber to be called
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-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.
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-w wait -
after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait wait seconds before starting the tcl-script
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-t redial -
if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get a connect
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-r redial-pause -
vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials
Files
/usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf
Releases
Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody).