23.4. Setting a Greeting Message

When your system answers the phone, it can play a greeting message so callers know who they have reached. After the message, vgetty will play a short beep as well, so the caller knows when to start talking. By default, however, there is no greeting message, so callers will just hear a beep. Because this is not very friendly, you can use Webmin to set up one or more messages to be played when the call is answered. If multiple messages are set up, vgetty will choose one of them at random for each call.

To add a greeting message, follow these steps:

1.
On the module's main page, click on the Greeting Messages icon. This will take you to a page listing all existing messages, if there are any.
2.
Record a message in ...

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