mgetty is running but I want to manually outdial - How

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On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 05:37:04PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:51:57PM +0000, Daddy Rabbit wrote:
> > Back in the days of DOS I use to verify whether a modem was working by
> > accessing the modem manually. Can I do the same from the linux server
> > prompt? I have tried the follow command without success>
> > 
> > echo atdt1234567 >/dev/ttyS1 <enter>
> 
> Try "cu -l ttyS1 -s 38400".
> 
> > I want to accomplish this as a trouble shooting measure. I have mgetty
> > running ( successfully ) and now I want to setup uucp. I'm having
> > trouble getting uucp to dial and I'm not sure whether mgetty and uucp
> > don't like living together or whether uucp is having trouble accessing
> > the modem. UUCP seems to be configured properly but does not see the
> > modem. 

> Run the uucp stuff with lotsa debugging ("uucico -r1 -S somehost -x9").

Linux comes with Taylor UUCP, which doesn't write debug to
standard[error|out] but to the log file.  

You'll have to figure out where your uucp is logging to,
and in another window

tail -f mylogfile

Of course, the most common reason for uucp getting crosswise
with the modem is it doesn't see eye-to-eye with mgetty about
where the lockfiles are kept.

-- 
Dan Wilder		                <dan@gasboy.com>