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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:46:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting up dial-in and dial-out (bidirectional) modem
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:

> Okay, any advice on how to do this?
> 
> I tried adding:
> 
> 	ttyd0	"/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"	unknown	on secure
> 
> to my /etc/ttys file, and then doing 'kill -1 1' -- this worked, as ps
> shows:
> 
> 	root     20989  0.0  1.8   176  540  ??  I     7:21PM    0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0
> 
> But... when I try calling that line, it answers, but getty never starts up.

See the handbook and consider installing mgetty for your modem dialin
ports.

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