Re: flexfax: paging gateway

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Aaron Seelye wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've finally got hylafax installed, and now i want to setup a method of
> getting paged whenever a server goes down, receiving mail, etc.  The
> problem i'm having is that the pager service my company uses is 
> Kelley's (if that factors into anything), and the way they're set up for
> alpha-numeric pages is that you dial a phone number, input an id and a
> pass (they are the same), and then send it along.  I was wondering if
> anyone else has this config set up, and would be willing to share how
> they did it.  also, should the config be setup to use ppp0 or cua0 as
> the modem?

The easiest thing is to edit a copy of "probemodem" or "faxaddmodem"
and write in the values you wish to send by hand. Or use kermit scripts:
numeric pager support would be nice to add to sendpage but is
not currently available.

What you use as the modem depends on your setup: I'm fond of using
"/dev/modem" myself....



			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu