Your surmise is right; you need a process to be watching the phone line. You
do this the same way you provide the console logins -- with an entry in
/etc/inittab for the device.
The details will vary a bit based on the distribution and version you are
using. Look in /etc/inittab for lines that look something like this (these
are the actual ones from Debian 2.1):
# Example how to put a getty on a modem line.
#
#T3:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
Your distribution may differ from the example in many particulars -- the
runlevels involved, the *getty app used, and the flags to the *getty app --
so don't just add this mechanically -- find the right one for your
distribution/version.
Uncomment the working line (the last line in the example above) and make
sure it refers to the ttyS* device that the modem is on. Restart init ("init
q") and you should be in business.
The modem also needs to be set to answer the phone; see your modem docs for
how to do this.
At 07:00 PM 9/4/99 +0300, Ralf Christian Strandell wrote:
>
>How can I login to my pc over a phone line?
>I think there should be some programme answering the phone
>and starting a login-program... Minicom? Dip?
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