[ale] Still more mgetty + CID questions

Fri Dec 14 10:34:20 EST 2001

Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
> Hello again!
> 
> First, a hearty thanks to all who answered my earlier question(s) about
> setting up mgetty and trying to get callerId and the cnd-program working.
> 
> Secondly, it still ain't there.  The mgetty log shows that the caller ID
> info is available, but my cnd-program script is not getting called.  So
> a few more questions have arisen:
> 
> 1) I'm running RH 7.1, and the config files are in /etc/mgetty+sendfax.
>         Is this the correct default location?

I don't know if RH changed anything, but that is the default for the
version I'm using successfully.

> 2) Does RH 7.1 mgetty have CNDFILE defined?

I'm sure it probably does, but, what version of mgetty is it?

> 3) Does mgetty need to answer the phone to send the CID data to cnd-program?

No, as I use mine to tell it whether to answer the phone or not.

> 
> TIA, again!
> 
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