Re: mgetty nonsense

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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