CentOS - Mar 2007 - setting up incoming PPP on centos 4.4

hi gang!

I'm interested in setting up incoming PPP on a system at work that has
a fresh (not upgrade) Centos 4.4 on it.

All the documentation I've found for that shows using mgetty to do it, and
seems pretty straightforward.

However, that machine doesn't have a binary named mgetty anywhere.

It does have a mgetty-sendfax RPM installed, but it does not provide a
binary named mgetty.

"yum -list available | grep -y getty" shows no additional packages I
could
use to obtain it.

so, how does one set up incoming PPP on Centos 4.4?

(I've searched the RH knowledgebase and all I found there that came close
was a very nice document on doing it on RHEL 3, which shows how to do it
with mgetty. Catch 22.)

Thanks!
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fredex wrote:
> hi gang!
> 
> I'm interested in setting up incoming PPP on a system at work that has
> a fresh (not upgrade) Centos 4.4 on it.
> 
> All the documentation I've found for that shows using mgetty to do it,
and
> seems pretty straightforward.
> 
> However, that machine doesn't have a binary named mgetty anywhere.
> 
> It does have a mgetty-sendfax RPM installed, but it does not provide a
> binary named mgetty.
> 
> "yum -list available | grep -y getty" shows no additional
packages I could
> use to obtain it.
Odd:
summer at coco:~$ rpm -qa '*gett*'
mgetty-1.1.31-2
gettext-0.14.1-13
mgetty-voice-1.1.31-2
mingetty-1.07-3
mgetty-sendfax-1.1.31-2
summer at coco:~$

It really is quite easy, I did it with RHL 7.3. I haf incoming fax, data 
(minicom etc) and ppp. I didn't manage to get the voice working though.





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Cheers
John

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