NAME
phones —
remote host phone number data
base
DESCRIPTION
The file
/etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone
numbers for the
tip(1) program.
This file is normally unreadable, and so may contain privileged information.
The format of the file is a series of lines containing whitespace separate
fields, of the form:
system-name phone-number
The
system-name is one of those defined in the
remote(5) file.
The
phone-number is constructed from any sequence of
characters terminated only by a comma (“,”) or the end of the
line. The equals (“=”) and asterisk (“*”) characters
are indicators to the auto call units to pause and wait for a second dial tone
(when going through an exchange). The “=” is required by the
DF02-AC and the “*” is required by the BIZCOMP 1030.
Only one phone number per line is permitted. However, if more than one line in
the file contains the same system name
tip(1) will attempt to dial each
one in turn, until it establishes a connection.
FILES
- /etc/phones
-
SEE ALSO
tip(1),
remote(5)
HISTORY
The
phones file appeared in
4.2BSD.