Modem Failures

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:46:39 +0100

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Hi,

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:42:56AM -0600, Robert Canary wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to get mgetty to run a certain script
> (0r something) that would be used to get the the sysop's attention when
> a modem continually fails to intitialize, instead of going into a
> relentless circle of intitializations.   Usually when this happens some
> sort of humen intervention is required.

Check contrib/watchit.pl for a tool that will monitor the mgetty log
file(s) and complain if more than 3 initialization attempts fail in 
sequence.

gert
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