mgetty is running but I want to manually outdial - How

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:58:59 +0100


Hi,

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 03:28:10PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote:
> > > 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're right, oversight on my part.  "cu -x9" will write the debug
output to stderr, though.

gert
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