Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!vandys From: vandys@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Andrew Valencia(Seattle)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Still more modem problems Message-ID: <10770012@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Date: 13 Jan 89 17:43:17 GMT References: <11126@quacky.mips.COM> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 11 / hpcupt1:comp.unix.microport / menna@mips.COM (Randy Menna) / 6:10 pm Jan 12, 1989 / >Well, now the modem talks to the getty, just fine, well not quite just >fine but all the time. The getty keeps trying to spawn a login, the >modems lights flash, it hangs up one the computer and does it again. Try duplicating the inittab entry *verbatim* three times in a row in inittab. Total black magic, but apparently uPort's sysadmin package does this and it solved the problem for me. Andy