I'm slightly mystified at your inittab entry because the action is set
to off, but I'm going to assume this is an anomaly.  

Do you customize your mgetty.config and login.conffg files?  I see you
have the id for the inittab entry set to ppp0, this is what makes me
wonder if you using the AutoPPP feature of login.config.  

rna

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:54, Craig White wrote:
> perhaps there's a better way and someone who is enlightened can clue me
> in to analog methods.
> 
> I have a client with a single dial-up line and it has now failed to
> return to auto answer mode (USR Sportster/external).
> 
> I have /etc/inittab set to...
> ppp0:345:off:/sbin/mgetty -x 5 ttyS0
> 
> and it worked for quite a while but one day failed to return to
> auto-answer mode so I used the Microsoft method of fixing things...I
> rebooted. It worked fine for a few weeks but now it went back to
> non-answering mode again so I simply ran the command from cli...
> mgetty -x 5 ttyS0
> 
> and it appeared to hang so I aborted (control-C) and looked at
> /var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS0 and in had...
> 
> 07/13 17:41:44 yS0  check for lockfiles
> 07/13 17:41:45 yS0   lockfile found, pid=16405
> 
> so I killed -9 16405 and then ran 'init q' and I'm back online.
> 
> Is there some more elegant way of handling this?
> 
> Craig
> 
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