mgetty problem (ringback-mode)

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Hi,,

Martin Lorenz wrote:
> mgetty has another fail: the moment the phone rings, it goes into
> ringback mode (this is desired as i only have one line) but it never
> comes out of it again!

Hmmm, I'll have to investigate this.

> additionally i can`t dial out from my crontab as long as mgetty is
> running (but that's another question...)

I assume you have a locking problem somewhere. All those I/O errors hint
at a pppd that is also sitting on the serial port, disturbing mgetty (and
not doing the locking correclty).

gert
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