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From: pjc@pbhyf.UUCP (Paul Condie)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: quiz
Message-ID: <2712@pbhyf.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 17:58:40 GMT
References: <2635@pbhyf.UUCP> <333@manta.UUCP> <367@pcbox.UUCP> <2600@oxtrap.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjc@pbhyf.UUCP (Paul Condie)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <2600@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>In article <367@pcbox.UUCP> pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) writes:
>>In article <333@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes:
>>>In article <2635@pbhyf.UUCP> pjc@pbhyf.UUCP (Paul Condie) writes that
>>>the phone manager complains "You may not run the phone manager without
>>>logging in" when he's logged in, and the mail icon never notifies him
>>>of new mail.
>>>Are you using multiple gettys?  If so, then I believe the problem is
>>No I'm not using multiple gettys.
>>Some time during the night the problem disapeared.  
>Sounds to me like your /etc/utmp or /usr/adm/wtmp was truncated or
>trashed while you were logged in.  (it happens).

Well it happend again over the weekend.
I had just sent a file to lp (remote print via uux), and i noticed that
lp core dumped and uucp exited with a "bad read".  I was then unable to
use the phone manager.  phdaemon reported that uucp was in progress, but
it wasn't.  there was no LCK.. file laying around but utmp looked funny which
is why phdaemon was reporting uucp in progress.

i am now unable to dial into my machine becase my modem does not answer.
I have tried rebooting but that didn't fix the problem of my modem answering.

How do you reset the modem???

the first time i had this problem was two days after  i had installed
news on my system, coincidence???