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From: twallace@panix.com (Thomas Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD1.0-Amiga getty trouble
Date: 2 Feb 1995 04:45:40 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Keywords: NetBSD getty Amiga

In <3gitar$42j@mail.fwi.uva.nl> vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes:

>twallace@panix.com (Thomas Wallace) writes:

>>Cu responds with permission denied, line busy. So who has the line? ps -j
>>tells of .../libexec/getty -s. I try killing the pesky bugger but another
>>starts on the line as if spawned from the loins of a deamon. The question
>>is: How do I gain back control of the serial port?

>This daemon is none other then init(8) ;-) You should edit /etc/ttys,
>mark the entry for tty00 as 'off', and do a "kill -HUP 1" (all as root,
>naturally). Then you can kill the getty process, and it won't come
>back.

>- Frank

O.K. I edit tty00 as follows:

tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"  vt100  off insecure   # int serial.

Then I "kill -HUP 1" and watch the terminal ready led on the modem go dark.
So I think to myself, Frank and Ezra are right. So I try cu again and here
is the result:

cu: open (/dev/tty00): Permission denied
cu: tty00:  Line in use


Disconnected.

O.k. no problem, I reboot. 30 to 60 secs to shutdown. 60 to 120 secs to boot.
I login as root and remember the password on the third try. Now I'm ready,
modem is ready, in high speed mode and nothing else. I type 
"cu -s 9600 -l tty00" and the response is:

cu: open (/dev/tty00): Permission denied
cu: tty00:  Line in use
 
 
Disconnected.

So to Frank and Ezra, I thank you both. But as you can tell I have probably
asked the wrong questions. BTW I have tried it on and off. I've tried calling
the line but the modem probably needs to be in autoanswer mode but I just
can't figure out how to grab the line. Either I have a bug somewhere or I
just do not know the correct question to ask. Any other ideas would be as
welcomed as the first. Thanks to all.

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