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 <[email protected]>
SEE ALSO
the vbox-documentation