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From: ahogben@informix.com (Andy Hogben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problems dialing in/out on same line
Date: 2 Sep 1994 20:04:15 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3480fv$bfm@infmx.informix.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mirage.informix.com
Originator: ahogben@mirage

I am yet another person who is having a hard time with dialin stuff.

I only have one serial line and I want to be able to call out and dial in
on that line.  I run rc.serial to setup my port (using the supplied settings
in the file) from rc.  After this, I can dial out no problem.  But, I can't
start getty on the dialin port (in my case cua00/ttyd0).

I edited /etc/ttys to change the line speed and to turn on getty for the
dialin line (ttyd0).  I then did a 'kill -1 1' by hand, which killed X on me
and lit up almost every light on the modem.  So, I tried from outside X.
Same thing (except it didn't kill X :-).  Needless to say, when this happens
I can't dial out either and I have to go back and turn off the getty.  What
am I missing or setting incorrectly?!

Some one recently asked a similar question to this.  Andreas replied
that he should read the FAQ (specifically section 8.5.2 I think).  Well,
I haven't found any reference to this in any FAQ I've seen.  Also, I
couldn't find the section to which Andreas referred.  Which FAQ
might this be and where is it?  I've checked on cdrom.com and every
where else I could think of.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Andy

BTW While I'm here... I posted a question a while ago and Steve Ratliff
solved my problem.  Thanks Steve.  I tried sending mail but it bounced.
--
Andy Hogben
Informix Software, Inc., Menlo Park, CA                ahogben@informix.com