You may want to look at using agetty or mgetty.  I've used both on a small 
(4 modems) modem server and kept mgetty.  Both allow dialing out without 
having to kill processes.

TJ

On 27 Dec 2002, Liberty Young wrote:

> With juse one modem, can i use it accept incoming calls for login and
> also use it to dial out, so i can send out reports and collected data? 
> Right now, getty is setup correctly and can allow dial-ins to login, but
> when the modem is used to dial out, the dial-out program competes with
> getty for the port and results in mass confusion. 
> 
> Can i get away with this without hacking getty?
> 
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