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From: gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Problems with VP/ix and NO CARRIER
Message-ID: <SEGOQRC@geminix.in-berlin.de>
Date: 23 Feb 91 20:15:26 GMT
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davidg@aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes:

>I have installed VP/ix on ISC V3.2 R2.2 and am having some problems
>when the carrier goes down when in VP/ix.
>
>Specifically, I have a T2500 running on ttyd0 and if the carrier
>disappears in the ttyd0 -sh process, it is replaced by ? getty. But
>when the carrier disappears in a VP/ix running as a sub-process to
>sh, both the ttyd0 and vpix processes just sit there and the next
>caller is whoever was logged on before!
>
>[stuff deleted]
>
>Does anybody have any ideas on how to go about fixing this?

You could use the FAS async driver instead of the original `asy'.
FAS will correctly terminate VP/ix when the modem hangs up, and
the next user will get a new getty.

FAS 2.08 was posted some weeks ago in this newsgroup.

       Uwe
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