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From: fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sys V uugetty problem
Keywords: sys V, uugetty, cu
Message-ID: <529@kos.rci.dk>
Date: 20 Feb 90 14:26:33 GMT
References: <20286@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: RC International, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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".
>	Any ideas?

This error usally occurs when the owner of /dev/tty00 isn't uucp

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