Timeout for AutoPPP login - and an add-on for the mgetty/vgetty program...

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hi,

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Thorbjoern List wrote:
> Furthermore, I have a problem with the login:
> 
> 	07/05 19:40:45 yS0    looking for utmp entry... (my PID: 12032)
> 	07/05 19:40:45 yS0   utmp + wtmp entry made
> 	07/05 19:40:46 yS0   tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
> 	07/05 19:40:46 yS0   print welcome banner (/etc/issue)
> 	07/05 19:40:46 yS0   getlogname (AUTO_PPP), read:
> 	07/05 19:44:46 yS0  getlogname: timeout[15]
> 	07/05 19:44:46 yS0   getlogname (AUTO_PPP), read:
> 	07/05 19:45:46 yS0  getlogname: timeout
> 	07/05 19:45:49 ##### failed dev=ttyS0, pid=12032, login time out
> 	
> 	--
> 	07/05 19:45:49 yS0  vgetty: experimental test release 0.9.3 / 15Jun99
> 	07/05 19:45:49 yS0  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.20-Jan17 (M+)
> 
> A timeout of 4 minutes for a 'wrong number' when answering in 
> FAX_MODE (or DATA_MODE) is rather high, as the phone line does not 
> pick up any other calls in that period. 

Hmmm, actually your modem should signal "the caller has gone away" in that
case (and mgetty should receive a SIGHUP and die).  [Why is it signalling
"CONNECT" anyway if there is none???]

The timeout is just for the unlikely case that someone connected to your
system, got a BUSY, set his modem to "retry this", went away to fetch
coffee, and forgot about the call.  So instead of sitting idly there and
making phone bills, mgetty will throw out the caller after a couple of
minutes...

> Is there any way of decreasing this to, say, 20 or 30 seconds?

mgetty.config, login-time <seconds>

gert
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