Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!dayton!meccts!meccsd!mecc!sewilco From: sewilco@mecc.MECC.COM (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Microport Unix & UUCP Message-ID: <808@mecc.MECC.COM> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 15:33:45 EST Article-I.D.: mecc.808 Posted: Mon Jan 12 15:33:45 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 07:24:27 EST References: <1040@hope.UUCP> <529@cti.cti.UUCP> Sender: news@mecc.MECC.COM Reply-To: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Organization: Minn Ed Comp Corp, St. Paul Lines: 40 In article <529@cti.cti.UUCP> eric@cti.UUCP (Eric Black) writes: >Just put the modem dialing commands in the send/expect sequence in the >L.sys entry. I'm running 1.36 and it works fine with a USR 2400. >It works for dialout on an Avatex 1200 (cheap!), but not for dialin >because there is no way to disable the status messages coming in from >the modem (which confuses getty and login!). I've been keeping two binary-only sites working for a while, and others might be interested in some general tricks. Incidentally, our two Xenix machines died January 1st, and SCO's help was late and futile. Fortunately the replacement machine was being installed, so only two weeks of work was lost. Hack 1: Replace getty. It simply requires caution and a backup copy of the original getty. In this case you make a getty which ignores the modem status messages (or tells it to shut up). Also, you can have different gettys running on different ports or have getty behave differently on different ports. Want source? Site 'omen' had one several months ago, when I had to replace the one for SCO Xenix. Actually, I had already replaced getty but omen's had a few more features. (I forget omen's phone number; look in the signature of articles `fgrep "@omen" ~news/history`) Hack 2: Create logins which match the modem status messages. With no passwords and shells which do nothing, or which tell the modem to shut up, they might keep the link a little cleaner. Hack 3: Put in getty's login message a modem command which tell the modem to shut up. The reverse may be necessary in L.sys. This can be varied for different tty ports by making new 'gettydefs' entries. Hack 4: Change uucico's name and replace it with a front-end which knows how to change modem settings for uucico, and how to change them back for getty. (A front-end like this can also be used to dial out on an incoming port) -- Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn Ed Comp Corp {quest,dayton,meccts}!mecc!sewilco (612)481-3507 sewilco@MECC.COM ihnp4!meccts!mecc!sewilco National Enquirer seers: 4 Reality: 360