mgetty and other comms software

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:28:01 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:19:13AM +0000, L. Whiteside wrote:
> Part of the problem was that I didn't realise that mgetty doesn't keep
> the lock file all the time it is running, only when it is actually
> using the modem (I'm too used to Windows comms software!)

Well, if mgetty would keep the lock, the modem would be blocked then,
which is not what I wanted to achieve :-)

> Not I've corrected the location of minicoms lock files, everything is
> working.

Glad to hear that.

gert
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