Re: On alarms and paging...
Justin Mason (jmason@iona.ie)
Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:04:19 +0100
In your message of Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:10:17 BST, you say:
>>50 percent of the time. Not good. :( Does anyone have any working scripts or
>>code to use a Sun workstation to page someone with a normal numeric pager? Or
>>a clue on what to do? Our telecom guy has no clues for me.
>use uucp. i've had uucp call me for years for security alerts, or for
>an alarm to get me up - i have the modem set up to dial, wait 8 seconds
>and shriek for long stretch into my ear/answering machine.
>a "uucico -r1 -szaphod" invokes the call. no problems with "non-calls".
>at risk of boring those who know how (replace xxx-xxxx with your target :)
>/etc/uucp/Systems:
>zaphod Any ACUALARM 1200 9-xxx-xxxx in:
>/etc/uucp/Devices:
>ACUALARM ttyh0 - 1200 alarm
>/etc/uucp/Dialers:
># alarm -- basic hayes, but shrieks in the earpiece
>alarm =,-, "" \dA\pTE1V1X1Q0S2=255S12=255\r\c OK\r \EATDT\T,,,,;ATA\r\c
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