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From: iain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Iain Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Dial-in/Dial-out on same tty port
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.194909.19604@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:49:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.032421.9098@irscscm.UUCP> <31108@sequoia.execu.com> <119792@uunet.UU.NET>
Organization: British Telecom Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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In article <119792@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In <31108@sequoia.execu.com> keith@sequoia.execu.com (Keith Pyle) writes:
>>In article <1991Jan22.032421.9098@irscscm.UUCP> mfaurot@bogart.UUCP (Michael Faurot) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>Several people have attempted to be clever and provide programs
>that kill off gettys, make lockfiles, edit /etc/ttys on the fly
>and kill init. And Sun (and most likely others) have corresponding
>dialout devices (/dev/cua#) that do all this in the kernel.
>
>However, even if you do all this, you still have the problem
>of modem switch settings. You might want dialin set differently
>from the dialout ones.

I'm in the process of "being clever" at the moment - I'm writing a program
to install in place of uucico.  According to whether the -r1 flag is present,
it will attempt the rigmarole described above, including reconfiguration of
the Trailblazer.  I don't intend to produce a generally-applicable tool, just
a solution to my own immediate problem.

If there is interest in this, I will post details of how well it works,
when it eventually gets finished.

>More hardware often means less software problems.

The trick is persuading people to spend the money :-(

 
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Iain Baird                                        iain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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