From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 14:17:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C5816A4BF for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D57343FE1 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tech@computerking.ca) Received: from v20.computerking.ca ([137.186.212.154]) by priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.netESMTP <20030831211713.ZMMD18788.priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net@v20.computerking.ca> for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:17:13 -0600 Received: from computerking.ca (unknown [192.168.0.19]) by v20.computerking.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C45104AE for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:17:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3F5265D8.6060805@computerking.ca> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:17:12 -0600 From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: vgetty X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:17:15 -0000 right on glad to hear someone has this program working as i am sort of lost mgetty starts ok i think as i get this in my ps -aux root 487 0.0 1.2 1048 704 ?? S 2:34PM 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty cuaa1 root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DLs 7:58AM 0:00.00 (swapper) [Sun Aug 31] 02:34 PM [0] but i want to use vgetty and all the docs talk about /etc/inittab i do not think this file exists in freebsd so where do i make my changes so that vgetty starts instead of mgetty also my log file for mgetty.cuaa1 has some problems with my modem mabey you can help me with that too. i use freebsd 4.8 and a usr 3com pci modem this is what bsd sees for a dmseg sio0: <3COM PCI FaxModem> port 0x6c00-0x6c07 irq 9 at device 15.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A this is my mgetty log mabey i should turn up my debug settings however i really hate to reboot my system Is there a way to reset mgetty vgetty without rebooting as my isp changes ipaddress alot which causes my lots of dns greif and missed emails and web hit etc etc etc 08/31 15:09:19 aa1 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.30-Dec16 08/31 15:09:19 aa1 check for lockfiles 08/31 15:09:19 aa1 locking the line 08/31 15:09:22 aa1 WARNING: DSR is off - modem turned off or bad cable? 08/31 15:09:22 aa1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 08/31 15:09:23 aa1 send: ATS0=0Q0&D3&C1[0d] 08/31 15:09:23 aa1 waiting for ``OK'' 08/31 15:09:43 aa1 timeout in chat script, waiting for `OK' 08/31 15:09:43 aa1 init chat timed out, trying force-init-chat 08/31 15:09:43 aa1 send: \d[10][03]\d\d\d+++\d\d\d[0d]\dATQ0V1H0[0d] 08/31 15:09:47 aa1 waiting for ``OK'' 08/31 15:10:07 aa1 timeout in chat script, waiting for `OK' 08/31 15:10:07 aa1 init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call 08/31 15:10:07 ##### failed in mg_init_data, dev=cuaa1, pid=572