No free ports...

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:51:54 +0100

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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 09:48:50AM +0400, Andrew Burtovoy wrote:
>   I'm using mgetty 1.0.0 to recieve FAXes and Fidonet calls and it works
> perfect. But also i'm using ifcico (part of ifmail package) to make
> outbound fidonet calls. ifcico and mgetty can work together 1 hour or 2
> but then ifcico says "no free matching ports". Also minicom doesn't wotk
> in this situation saying that "port is locked". I can find
> /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0
>   Everything i can do is to kill mgetty process. Respawning helps and
> mgetty with ifcico could now work hour or two more.

Looks like the communication between mgetty and modem locks up.  What does
the mgetty log file show?

>   Where can i find the solution. Please, help.

In the log file.

gert
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