PC Quest: An answering machine with Linux | Linux Today

PC Quest: An answering machine with Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 24, 2000

[ Thanks to Harry for
this link. ]

A hands-on guide to setting up your Linux box as an
answering machine.

“This article tells you how to set up your Linux box as an
answering machine. Please read it carefully and modify the lines
where needed. Be careful when working as root, and take care to
make backup copies of any file before editing it, so that you can
restore it back to the previous state in case something doesn’t
work.”

“You’ll need the following to get started:

  • A working phone line
  • A data-fax-voice modem-internal or external-working in
    Linux,
  • A microphone to record the greeting message, and
  • vgetty installed.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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