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From: yarnall@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: getty, VLT, and modem0.device
Summary: not working too well together...
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.050320.11615@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 05:03:20 GMT
Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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First, my setup (just to get this out of the way)

Amiga 2500/30 (stock)
VLT 4.846
getty as distributed with AmigaUUCP_PLUS 1.02 (equiv. to 1.06D version??)
Supra 2400zi internal 2400 baud modem, using (apparently) version 1.7 of 
   modem0.device.

I have been experimenting with AmigaUUCP+ since it arrived on abcfd.  Right
now, until my link to a mail feed gets established, I have only been using
getty to field incoming calls to my Empire (2.2w) server.  The problem occurs
when I use VLT while getty is running.  getty gets out of the way as it is
supposed to, and my outgoing calls work fine, but after certain actions (eg,
if I hang up the modem with VLT -- this is the only one I can currently
reproduce, though I think there may be others), getty will seemingly
disappear.  status reports it is gone, and so does Xoper.  Often, if I
attempt to restart getty after this has happened, the machine will crash, and
when it does guru, it's a 00000004.xxxx - type guru (which one is this?  I never
bother to try to keep them straight).  I think that it may be a problem with
the interaction between the modem0.device and getty, possibly even a bug in the
device itself, but I really don't have a clue.  

If anyone out there has a more current version of the modem device (the
version # shows up as an icon on the supra disk that came with the 2400zi), I
would appreciate a message to that effect, so that I can contact Supra and
find out how to get it.  

Also, is there anyone who has a verifiedly stable getty running?  I am about
to dive into Matt's source, but I really haven't the time...

Any ideas at all will be appriciated.

ken

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     Ken Yarnall                 ///   yarnall@usceast.cs.scarolina.EDU
      Math Department, USC   \\\///   yarnall@ucseast.UUCP
       Columbia, S.C. 29208   \\\/   (803)777-5218
    `You'd better tie me up.' -- from the movie, "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down"