Re: Subject: Re: [LI] Problem with mgetty.

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Pankaj Mathur wrote:

->Hi Atul,
->I am using ttySx for modem and not ttyCux.But ,unfortunately for me the life 
->with mgetty isn't proving to be as simple as you've mentioned. I tried 
->activating my ppp0 interface (using netcfg at ttyS0) while mgetty was 
->running on the /dev/ttyS0 and like expected there was no response i.e the 
->interface was not activated. I had to undo the entire procedure mentioned in 
->your article and after that if I try to activate the ppp0 interface - it 
->works! So I am forced to conclude that mgetty in my case is not freeing up 
->the device ttyS0 when I want to dial out. And this brings up the annoying 
->question - WHY? I have gone thru your article more than a dozen times and 
->everything seems to be in order. Please help- I haven't got a clue now.

I have posted a suggestion to your mail, which unfortunately didnot
appear.  If this appears, then try this.  Use -r option in your mgetty
initiation line in /etc/inittab. See also man mgetty to know what this
option does. AFAIK this is the solution to this problem.  If it works
please let me know.

Nagarjuna

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