[On Topic] Re: Dial in & out - Fixed. (doh!)

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Nick Kay <mgetty@nexnix.co.uk> wrote:
>Ah. No it's not. mgetty is making LCK..ttyS1 - pppd is making LCK..modem.
>So the lesson learnt is to make sure that the device is called by the same
>name (even if it's a link) throughout all the applications that require
>lockfiles.  Obvious really when you think about it. ;>

>Once I told mgetty to use /dev/modem (the same as pppd) the locking
>mechanism works properly and I can dialout while mgetty is running
>because mgetty sleeps on pppds lockfile. Yay!

[...]
>(I guess I should post this on the newsgroup so perhaps it'll find it's
>way into DejaNews for the next one who makes the same mistake)

this is taken from 'info mgetty':
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   Also, make sure that both processes use the same name for the device.
(i.e., mgetty locking `/dev/ttyS0' and kermit locking `/dev/modem' will
definitely fail.)
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best regards, Johannes

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