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From: gsn@sclcig.uucp (Georg Nikodym)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Help with uugetty, please?
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.054641.2804@sclcig.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 90 05:46:41 GMT
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In article <331@kurz-ai.UUCP> mack@kurz-ai.UUCP (Ed Mackenty) writes:
>I'm posting this for a friend since he (obviously) cannot connect to the
>net himself:
>====================
>I am having problems with setting up a bi-directional uucp link. I am using
>a 68000 based machine running AT&T Sys 5.3 with some Berkeley stuff. I put a
>uugetty on my port with a modem set up in a standard way. This works fine for
>dialing in. When cu or uucp tries to dial out it cannot open the /dev file
>since the carrier detect is not on. If I force CD on with a modem switch then
>uucp works, but uugetty and the AT echos have a fun time talking to each
>other.  (login: echos, trying to login as "login:") It seems that I can only
>have one or the other. Has anybody else seen this problem? Is there a fix or
>a work-around?

First of all, set your modem back to the way you had, so that it does not
supply a carrier detect (CD) signal.  In the Dialers file you should
read some of the commentary and you'll probably find that you can put
a "M," at the beggining of your dialing script.  What this does is tell
cu or uucico to open the port with O_NDELAY set (do not wait for CD).
uugetty should not interfere.

For those of the that know this already, allow me to share one of the
more ridiulous solutions to this problem that I've seen recommended,
which is to have the uugetty defined in /etc/inittab as only running
in INIT 3.  So if you wanted to dial out or receive a call you had to
switch run levels!  Yes, I do know of someone who actually does it that
way.  Weird.

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