Re: [LI] Problem with mgetty.

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Pankaj Mathur wrote:

> hi folks,
> Sorry for pasting a somewhat long output. I follwed the article of PC Quest 
> Mar 99 " Configure your Linux server for access through a modem"by Vivek 
> Kumar and Atul Chitnis and I am facing the follwing problems:
> A) At home after doing 'init q' to force the system to reread the 
> '/etc/inittab file so that it can start mgetty with the options given there. 
> But it locks the modem and my ppp interface - there should be some way of 
> manually stopping  mgetty to free the device for dialing out to ISP. I want 
> to know what option to use with mgetty to disable it temporarily  - man & 
> info pages were not of much help.

As long as you configure mgetty and your dialout process to use the same
/dev/ttySx (ttyS0 or ttyS1) line, mgetty will automatically move out of
the way when you try to dialout.

Note that this will work only with ttySx - cua devices are no longer
supported since Linux 2.2.

Atul


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