> What utilities to I need to run in order to accomplish this.
> I have looked at mgetty and pppd, but seem to missing the knowledge to put
> the two together.
> mgetty does all you want. Just read PPP-HOWTO, it teachs you how to
> set up a PPP server.
>
Basically, after having compiled your kernel with PPP support, or better
load the ppp.o module in it (modprobe ppp), and having installed mgetty,
basically you have to include a line in /etc/inittab as such:
s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -x /dev/ttyS3
where /dev/ttyS3 is the port where your modem is hooked. In any case, take
a look at the PPP-HOWTO.
In order to understand what you do better take a look at this, extracted from
the manual page man telinit:
Init
Init is the father of all processes. Its primary role is
to create processes from a script stored in the file
/etc/inittab (see inittab(5)). This file usually has
entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes
required by any particular system.
Consider also: man inittab
Regards, Alvaro
