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VBOXPUTTY(8) System Manager's Manual VBOXPUTTY(8)

vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty

vboxputty -d device [-f config-file] [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout] [-w wait] [-t redial] [-r redial-pause]

vboxputty [-hv]

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.

display a short help
display the version information
use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf
use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout
the phonenumber to be called
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.
after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait wait seconds before starting the tcl-script
if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get a connect
vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials

/usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf

Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>

the vbox-documentation

13. January 2000 4th Berkeley Distribution