Login Problem - mgetty and Redhat Linux 5.2 --- Fixed

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Thanks all. I did finally act on the excellent debug that is output by
mgetty.  The log had a line in it on every call that went something like
this:  "DSR Line low and should not be - faulty cable".
This was not fatal to mgetty, but login did not like it!  As decribed at
http://www.cqs.ch/~jww/doc/mgetty/login-hang.html  If the DCD line is low,
then /bin/login will attempt to open the port the gain exclusive use for
password entry.  Well, login does this when the DSR line is low too.  Simply
replacing the modem cable as instructed by the dedug resulted in flawless
operation.
Thanks for all your efforts on a great program.

Chris

Gert Doering wrote in message <19990524180246.I29497@greenie.muc.de>...
>  Do you run it from the command line or from /etc/inittab?

mgetty is running from inittab.

>
>Could you retry this with 1.1.20, and if the problem still occurs, send
>the log of one call (one! just the lines from the mgetty version number up
>to the #### line)?
>
>gert
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