On Thu, 7 May 1998, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of
> > RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results with a
> > timestamp in a logfile, if possible.
>
> Every ring of my phone is timestamped in /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log thus:
>
> 05/07 09:17:38 yS1 waiting...
> 05/07 09:46:19 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:19 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:22 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:25 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:28 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:31 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:34 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:37 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:40 yS1 send: ATA[0d]
>
> Or is it the precise number of rings that's important to you?
> I'm not convinced that the number of rings I hear in the earpiece
> precisely matches what's being "heard" and logged at the other end.
In New Zealand, the system is thus:
One end : RING RING RING RING RING RING
Other end: RING RING RING RING RING RING
So that the same number of rings is not always heard at both ends. It is
never more than one either side though.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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