mgetty stops answering phone

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I had something like that happen in the 5.1/5.2 distribution of Redhat (
sorry, I do not remember the Mgetty version. ) I am using the version
distributed with Redhat 6.0 now, and no longer have the problem.  

As a workaround ( because I was too lazy to find the proper way to fix it ),
I created a cron job that would check to see if it was hung ( I could tell
by looking at the differernt ps -? Outputs  ), and killed mgetty if the
situation occurred.  

By the way, I downloaded the latest mgetty RPM from Redhat 6.1 ftp site, and
came up with a version newer than 1.0.  You may want to check your version
and upgrade if necessary.   I think the version that came with RH 6.1 was
Mgetty 1.1.14.  

Jason Hoffman


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	linuxgeek@yahoo.com [SMTP:linuxgeek@yahoo.com]
	Sent:	Sunday, October 31, 1999 2:19 PM
	To:	mgetty@muc.de
	Subject:	mgetty stops answering phone

	Strange problem:

	I've used mgetty for years, but the machine's hard drive went up.
So I
	put on Redhat 6.1 and added mgetty.  It works, but only for a while.
	After a while (day, two days), the modem will no longer answer the
	phone.  Mgetty is running and I can find no errors.

	If I kill mgetty, it gets respawned and starts answering the phone
	again.

	This is mgetty 1.0.0

	Has anyone seen/heard anything like this?  Help appreciated.

	 -Eric


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