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From: chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: How to suspend getty when dialing out?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:16:03 GMT
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In the documentation for uucp for Domain OS 10.2 (BSD), it says that getty
must be turned off before dialing out on /dev/tty0?.
 
It says "This can be done with a script."

Does anyone have such a script they'd like to share?

The only way I can think of to do this is to have uucico be a script
that edits /etc/ttys, sends a kill signal to init, invokes the "real"
uucico, then undoes what it did.

But it would have to run setuid root to send a signal to init, which
is a no-no for a shell script.

Thanks for any suggestions.

chet.
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