Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!pbhya!bgo
From: bgo@PacBell.COM (Bud Odekirk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sys V uugetty problem
Keywords: sys V, uugetty, cu
Message-ID: <33475@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 90 15:00:07 GMT
References: <20286@bcsaic.UUCP> <30@demott.COM>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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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 have Interactive Unix (System V 3.2) and I am having the identical problem.
I called the Interactive Hotline (1-800-344-3896) and they are sending me a
fix (X5 update) that is supposed to correct the problem.


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