NAME

       vboxgetty - isdn voice box (getty)

SYNOPSIS

       vboxgetty [OPTION] [OPTION] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       Vboxgetty  is  the  heart of vbox: it watches the isdn system and waits for incoming voice
       calls,

OPTIONS

       -f, --file FILE
              Config file to use. Default is the file '/etc/isdn/vboxgetty.conf'.

       -d, --device TTY
              ISDNdevice to use. You must use this option!

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
              Show version of program.

CONFIGURING VBOX

       vboxgetty should be started from the init process. To  do  this  you  need  one  line  per
       vboxgetty in /etc/inittab like this one:

       I5:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/vboxgetty -d /dev/ttyI5

       The   next   step   is   to   set   up   a   working   configuration   for  all  ports  in
       /etc/isdn/vboxgetty.conf: read vboxgetty.conf(5) how to do this and look  at  the  example
       config file in /usr/share/doc/isdnvboxserver/examples.

       You  should  then  create  the  spool  directories  for each user: /var/spool/vbox/<user>,
       /var/spool/vbox/<user>/incoming  and  /var/spool/vbox/<user>/messages.  Copy  the  example
       config   files  vbox.conf  and  standard.tcl  from  /usr/share/isdnvboxserver/default/  to
       /var/spool/vbox/<user>, read the man pages vbox.conf(5)  and  vboxtcl(5)  and  edit  these
       config files.

       Change  the  owner  of  all  files  in  /var/spool/vbox/<user>  with "chown <user>.<group>
       /var/spool/vbox/<user>  -Rv"  and  correct  the  permissions   with   "chmod   o-rwx,g-rwx
       /var/spool/vbox/<user> -Rv".

       The last step: run "init q" to force init to reread /etc/inittab

HOW IT WORKS

       For each line in /etc/inittab one vboxgetty is started by init.  Make sure the first field
       (ID) and the device file are different. Each vboxgetty does this:

       First /etc/isdn/vbox.conf is read, the global  settings  are  loaded  and  then  the  port
       specific settings. Then vboxgetty waits for an incoming call.

       On  an  incoming  call vboxgetty reads /var/spool/vbox/<user>/vbox.conf (unless you change
       that name), and vboxgetty determines if it should take that call  or  how  many  RINGs  it
       should wait. It also gets the name of the standard message, beep message, timeout message,
       if these should be played and an alias for the current caller, if there is one.

       If vbox has waited enough RINGs and the caller is still ringing, it  takes  the  call  and
       starts  the  tcl script /var/spool/vbox/<user>/standard.tcl (unless you change that name),
       and this script will do the rest (normally: play standard and  beep  message,  record  and
       then play timeout message).

FILES

       /etc/isdn/vboxgetty.conf
              default config file

       /etc/inittab
              init starts vboxgetty via this file.

       /etc/isdn/vboxgetty.conf
              the global vbox config file

       /var/spool/vbox/<user>/vbox.conf
              the per user configuration file for this port

       /var/spool/vbox/<user>/standard.tcl
              the tcl script used to communicate with the caller

       /var/run/vboxgetty-<device>.pid
              process id of the vboxgetty

       /var/log/vbox/vboxgetty-<device>.log
              logfile of the vboxgetty

SEE ALSO

       vboxgetty.conf(5), vbox.conf(5), vboxtcl(5), isdntime(5)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>, for Debian
       GNU/Linux and isdn4linux.