NAME

       vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty

SYNOPSIS

       vboxputty  -d  device  [-f  config-file]  [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout] [-w wait] [-t
       redial] [-r redial-pause]

       vboxputty [-hv]

DESCRIPTION

       vboxputty is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After connect, vboxputty
       is acting exactly like vboxgetty.  vboxputty exits with 0 if a connection was established,
       99 on BUSY.

OPTIONS

       -h     display a short help

       -v     display the version information

       -f config-file
              use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf

       -d device
              use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout

       -c phonenumber
              the phonenumber to be called

       -s ring-timeout
              vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait ring-timeout seconds  for  the  called
              party  to  accept  the  call,  if ring-timeout seconds are ellapsed before connect,
              vboxputty will hangup.

       -w wait
              after the connection is  established,  vboxputty  will  wait  wait  seconds  before
              starting the tcl-script

       -t redial
              if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get a connect

       -r redial-pause
              vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials

FILES

       /usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf

AUTHOR

       Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de>

SEE ALSO

       the vbox-documentation