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From: rtidd@ccels3 (Randy C. Tidd w33 x6499)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sys V uugetty problem
Keywords: sys V, uugetty, cu
Message-ID: <97213@linus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 15:25:24 GMT
References: <20286@bcsaic.UUCP>
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In article <20286@bcsaic.UUCP> carroll@bcsaic.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>
>	I have a modem on a serial port on my System V/386 box which I
>would like to use for dialout as well as dialin. getty works fine, in
>the usual expected way, but when I edit /etc/inittab to call uugetty
>rather than getty, something strange happens.
>	uugetty handles incoming calls OK, but when I try to use cu to
>dial out, it doesn't seem to be able to open the tty line. Running   
>cu -d -ltty00 the system tells me "CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE".


I wish I could help you, but I can only agree with you. I normally use
kermit to dial out, and when I have uugetty running on my serial port
kermit will run fine, but when I tell it to connect to the tty it
just hangs... no error message or anything, it just freezes.

>	Any ideas?
Any ideas?

Randy Tidd
rtidd@mwunix.mitre.org
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