turn off modem during the day

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Hi,

Mate Wierdl wrote:
> I have my modem in my office set up for dialin via mgetty (Linux
> Redhat 4.1, mgetty mgetty-1.0.0). 
> 
> The University has a voicemail system which I would like to use while
> I am in the office, otherwise I 'd like mgetty and the modem answer
> the phone when I leave. 
> 
> Can I do this simply without playing with the mgetty entry in inittab
> and rebooting (or init q). 

Sure. Just touch /etc/nologin.ttyS<n>

> What if I just simply turn the modem off
> while I am in the office? Would mgetty get confused after a while, or
> it will just report to the log file that the modem is off, and it will
> get back to business as soon as the modem is turned on?

It will complain a lot, fill up your whole hard disk with complaints,
and finally go off and kill the dog :-)

No, there is no "real" problem except for the log file growth. So reduce
the log level, or reserve enough space.

gert
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