mgetty problems

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Hi,

Greg B. wrote:
> Yes I talked to cyclades and they did have a problem
> with the driver I was using (2.1.1.3).  Seems they created a bug
> when they were trying to fix a printer problem.  I have 
> already installed the new driver (2.1.1.4). Has only been 
> 1.25 days but it seems to be working.  I'll have to 
> wait and see if my modems stop locking up periodically.

I see.  Thanks for that information.

> After getting the message from Gert I found the 
> source for 1.1.14 and installed it.  The error logging
> is better than ever.  I thank you for your help.  

My pleasure :-)

> Cyclades still has the mgetty 1.1.9 tar on their site.
> I will e-mail them and tell them that it's broken.  When
> I checked redhat's ftp site (when its not busy) they still
> had the rpm for 1.1.9 too.

Actually, 1.1.9 is not "broken" in itself, it just doesn't work with
GNU libc 2.x.

RedHat 5.1 will ship with 1.1.14, and should be released "just one of 
these days".

> I did go to the archive and look for references of the problem
> I was having but must have missed it.  The search engine
> doesn't work.  At least I couldn't get it to find anything, I kept
> getting a Glimpse Error.  Trying to read through all the 
> messages headers is tedious and error prone.

RJ?

> at the site :
> 
> http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/
> 
> It says:
> 
> latest official release (1.0.0, 601 Kbyte)
> 
> That is very missleading since it was an older version
> than I was using.  

Umm, well, this is technically correct.  1.0.0 *is* the latest official
release, while 1.1.x are "just interim test releases".  Usually 1.1.x
versions have some interesting problems, or might have, due to not being
thoroughly enough.

Maybe it's time to do an 1.0.1 patch, fixing the glibc 2 problems.

gert

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