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From: andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: quiz
Summary: How to reset the modem
Message-ID: <198@rbdc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 20:35:04 GMT
References: <2635@pbhyf.UUCP> <333@manta.UUCP> <367@pcbox.UUCP> <2600@oxtrap.UUCP> <2712@pbhyf.UUCP>
Organization: Red Bard Data Center
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In article <2712@pbhyf.UUCP>, pjc@pbhyf.UUCP (Paul Condie) writes:
> 
> Well it happend again over the weekend.
> 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???

If you are running the distributed version of uucp (not HDB) you have probably
found one of the bugs in uucp.  This version of uucp (as well as cu, and ATE)
has a really klugy way of killing the getty running on the line so it can dial
out.  It edits /etc/inittab by putting a ":" in front of the entry in
/etc/inittab and kills the getty.  When uucp finishes it removes the ":"
and restarts getty.  For some reason this does not always work, and you are
left without a getty running on the line.  Rebooting won't help because
the entry in inittab is still commented out.  You can ether edit inittab
and replace the : with a space (make *Sure* there is a space in the first
position) or better you can type "setgetty ph1 1" (without the ""'s).

Andy Pitts    andy@rbdc   {gladys,bakerst}!rbdc!andy