hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley) (07/03/84)
Without much foresight, I ordered measured service from New England Telephone when I moved to Burlington, Vermont, last summer. After the first hour of local calls each month, I have to pay a cent or two per minute. Now that I have a 1200 baud modem and terminal at home, it is easy to spend half an hour or so per day calling my friendly VAX. A little arithmetic tells me that soon I will be paying much more than if I had ordered the unlimited service even though it has a higher basic rate. I would like to know how I can have my friendly VAX, running 4.2 BSD, return my calls. Has anybody done this? What I need, I guess, is a program that I can invoke, then logout and hang up the phone. This program will use our VAX's autodial modem to call me at home. When my modem answers, the program will spawn a shell (or getty) for me. Does anybody know the details of doing this? Our VAX, fortunately, has unlimited telephone service! -- "If that's true, then I'm the Pope!" Stephen J. Hartley USENET: decvax!dartvax!uvm-gen!uvm-cs!hartley The University of Vermont
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (07/10/84)
<> Interesting query: >From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley) Tue Jul 3 13:56:40 1984 > I would like to know how I can have my friendly VAX, running 4.2 BSD, return >my calls. If you get this working, why not put a clock demon to work and have it call at, say 0600 every morning? Wouldn't you like to have an alarm VAX? Helpfully, D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
jhh@ihldt.UUCP (John Haller) (07/12/84)
>If you get this working, why not put a clock demon to work and have it >call at, say 0600 every morning? Wouldn't you like to have an alarm >VAX? We had a user abusing our autodialer that way. It's interesting how fast the at job got cancelled when the system clock was intentionally advanced 2 hours one day.
leif@erix.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) (07/15/84)
> From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP > If you get this working, why not put a clock demon to work and have it > call at, say 0600 every morning? Wouldn't you like to have an alarm > VAX? Not to mention having it call you up when mail arrives or when something new appears in your favorite newsgroup. Leif Samuelsson leif@erix.UUCP