Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!xanth!mcnc!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!cuuxun!jhunix!ecf_hap From: ecf_hap@jhunix.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Want uucico to work without answering the phone Keywords: uucico, /etc/inittab, phone manager Message-ID: <292@jhunix.JHU.EDU> Date: 27 Nov 88 04:39:41 GMT Organization: Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 38 Well I came up with a solution to a problem - and it seems too easy :-). I wanna see if anyone can poke holes in it. I've got a UNIXpc at home, and one at work. I've got the two set up so that the one at home polls the one at work (phone rings at 3AM at work, nobody cares). The next obstacle was setting up the unixpc at home so that it could make uucico calls, but wouldn't answer the phone every time it rang. I RTFM'd all about phone(7), phone(4), and the Interface Specification Manual and couldn't figure out a way to make this so. Then I got to thinking about the god-blessed-phone-manager and the fiddling it's compelled to do in inittab every time I change the line mode (VOICE<==>DATA). What I ended up doing was changing the inittab entry for ph0 from "respawn" to "off" - that way, it doesn't matter whether the phone-manager's colon-comment is there or not - that getty ain't gonna run. Now I can just leave the line set for "DATA" without fear that the damn pc will answer the phone. Oh yeah - I didn't just use phtoggle 'cause I'm still stuck at 3.5; ain't got no 3.51. I'm posting this for two reasons: 1) if there's a reason not to do this, someone'll find it; 2) other people may have the same problem and might even benefit :-) So how about it? Is this little prank on the phone-manager gonna bite me? Andy . * . * . * . * . * * . * . * _ . * * . . * andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu . * . _/ \ * _ . . * * * . * . \ / \_ _/ \ * _/\ * ap@ipgate.hcf.jhu.edu * \ . * _/ /\ \ / () \_ /\_ / \_* . * . * . . ^ \_ / _/ \ _/ \_/ <> \_ ecf_hap@jhunix.UUCP \ /` <> / <> \_ / <> _ \ * . * . \ \_ () __/ _ \ /\ / \_ ^ \ L64A0429@jhuvm.BITNET . /\ \_ _/ () _/ \_ \_ _/ \_ \___________________________