Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Still more dialin problems Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981012125843.19668O-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121252260.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > Perhaps you didn't enable the getty on that port? Oh, it's enabled, although after I wrote that message, I did yet more testing, and found something else out. After the modem answers the line, the getty process dies, and a new one immediately starts up. It's almost as if getty is calling login, but somehow failing, and then it just drops the DTR line, making the modem hang up. I can't say for sure, though, especially in light of the fact that even dialing into Minicom on the FreeBSD box isn't working. I get a connection, but garbage after that. Are any particularly special ownerships and permissions required for login and getty? Here's what they are on my system: [279]data@ds9:/home/data % ls /usr/bin/login -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 24576 Sep 14 21:38 /usr/bin/login* [281]data@ds9:/home/data % ls /usr/libexec/getty -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Sep 14 21:36 /usr/libexec/getty* I also did a "strings" on getty, and it looks to be calling /usr/bin/login, so I don't think it's not finding login: [282]data@ds9:/home/data % strings /usr/libexec/getty | grep login ppplogin login _login_tty login: /usr/bin/login > Perhaps your FreeBSD and NT modems hate each other? That's what I thought at first, but I also booted my NT machine into Linux and used Minicom on it, and got the same results. I also get identical results when dialing in from another outside computer. That's why this is so darn mystifying. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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