[ale] mgetty and caller ID setup

Mon Dec 10 18:45:01 EST 2001

Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got mgetty set up on my box, and when I get a call in, I see the
> mgetty.log.ttyS0 log showing:
> wfr:  waiting for RING...
> 
> repeated several times for each call (I assume once per ring), and when
> the call is answered, I see the caller ID number in the log file.  However,
> I  do not see the effects of the cnd-program I've got set up. I suspect
> that I'm missing one small option somewhere.  That, or I can't run a shell
> script as the cnd-program [yes, it's world-readable, owner executable]
> 
> Has anyone done this kind of thing before successfuly?

I'm doing it right now, screening my fax line for calls.  Mine does call
a perl script, so that's not the problem.  Here's my entry in the
config:

cnd-program /home/esoteric/shl/callerid.pl

Nothing to it from there, the parms are passed automagically.

> My goal is to have
> the CID be used for a festival-based spoken Caller ID utility, so that I
> don't have to find the phone unit to see who's calling.

I'm headed that way too, but I've not got all my modems into one machine
as I want just yet.

> 
> Thanks in advance
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