Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!xanth!mcnc!rutgers!gatech!gt-eedsp!emory!skeeve!bagend!jan From: jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: Want uucico to work without answering the phone Summary: use ph1 for data, HDB helps Keywords: uucico, /etc/inittab, phone manager, voice/data line Message-ID: <327@bagend.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 88 12:46:10 GMT References: <292@jhunix.JHU.EDU> Organization: Surrogate Systems, Marietta, GA Lines: 44 In article <292@jhunix.JHU.EDU>, ecf_hap@jhunix.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) writes: > > 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? > Well, I am using 3.51 but... This has worked for me for six months without biting me. However, even though I do not have a phone on ph0, my etc/inittab looks like this: :ph0:2:off:/etc/getty ph0 1200 ph1:2:off:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -r -t60 ph1 1200 The default for ph1 is data - no phtoggle required. Actually, for the last 3 months my etc/inittab looked like that since I installed HDB and hooked a modem to tty000 for incoming. Before that the OBM was the only modem I used so it looked like: :ph0:2:off:/etc/getty ph0 1200 ph1:2:off:/etc/getty ph1 1200 And no problems, AFTER I got FixDisk1a from AT&T. The problems that I was having before then were with uucico and the phone manager having thier own private war, but this was with 3.51. Now, if I could just get the Telebit on tty000 to talk reliably to an OBM! Jan --- jan@bagend.UUCP "It's not funny unless it hurts someone else" {uunet}!gatech!bagend!jan Robert A. Heinlein 404-434-1335