BROKEN_VTIME in vgetty

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:53:34 +0100


Hi,

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:41:35AM +0100, Martin Porstner wrote:
> I've had mgetty/vgetty (1.1.20) up and running without any problem for
> quite some time.
> Then I upgraded my Sparc IPX with a magma-board for V.90 like
> serial speed - no problems so far.
> But obviously (as confirmed on magma site) the board qualifies for the
> mgetty option BROKEN_VTIME and with that set mgetty works:
> 
> 12/30 21:10:36 a/0   mdm_command: string 'OK' -> OK
> 12/30 21:10:36 a/0   waiting for line to clear (select), read:
> 12/30 21:10:36 a/0   removing lock file
> 12/30 21:10:36 a/0  waiting...
> 
> But I cannot find (grep) BROKEN_VTIME option in vgetty source and vgetty
> seems
> to assume correct_vtime  :-(   and hangs.

Vgetty uses mgetty's "io.c" functions, and thus *should* work fine if
mgetty works (compiled from the same source tree, with the same Makefile
settings).

What exactly is the problem, could you show a log file snippet?

gert
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