I have agetty running on all terminals and the modem port, and UUCP set
up to operate from it.  agetty requires a slight reporgramming of the
modem profile, but it can be done.

- Alan

:       Could anybody please tell my how and if it is possible to get
: Linux to answer the phone after x number of beeps not using PPP or SLIP
: (instead UUCP). I looked at the getty manpage but could not find anything
: there.
:                               Thanks
:

it can be done with mgetty (and probably with other getty's to)
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Perhaps you can look into xringd ?

Cheers,
e.
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That's why the double \r\n between RING
Your modem might respond different...test it by running e.g.minicom with
auto-answer disabled (ATS0=0 for Rockwell based modems) and have someone
call you .Then just watch the "format" of RING.If it does not jump one line
like mine then you don't need \r\n\r\n just \r\n

I tried..
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