Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!cbterra!mhm From: mhm@cbterra.ATT.COM (Mike H. Moran) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: UNIXPC uucp problem Summary: uugetty is ok, you need it if you want to call out on the same line as in comming calls. Message-ID: <3915@cbterra.ATT.COM> Date: 4 Jul 88 15:28:25 GMT References: <1988Jun27.202651.9458@ziebmef.uucp> <103@cjsa.UUCP> <382@manta.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh Lines: 18 In article <382@manta.UUCP>, brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes: > In article <103@cjsa.UUCP> jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) writes: > >In article <1988Jun27.202651.9458@ziebmef.uucp>, becker@ziebmef.uucp writes: [ much stuff about inittab enteries, etc ....] > This puts a uugetty on the phone line waiting for an incoming > connection. I believe the getty initializes the port to answer > incoming calls. You may need to replace /usr/lib/uucp/uugetty above > with /etc/getty. Without a getty, your machine won't answer. Not quite true, uugetty is supposed to be intelligent :-) in that it will answer incomming calls as well as allow out going calls on the same port without need of inittab modfication. Mike Moran Contracted to AT&T-BL UUCP: att!cbosgd!mhm Columbus, Ohio mhm@cbosgd.att.com