From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 13:02:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28595 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28590 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 26943 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Oct 1998 20:02:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Doug White cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Still more dialin problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > Perhaps you didn't enable the getty on that port? Oh, it's enabled, although after I wrote that message, I did yet more testing, and found something else out. After the modem answers the line, the getty process dies, and a new one immediately starts up. It's almost as if getty is calling login, but somehow failing, and then it just drops the DTR line, making the modem hang up. I can't say for sure, though, especially in light of the fact that even dialing into Minicom on the FreeBSD box isn't working. I get a connection, but garbage after that. Are any particularly special ownerships and permissions required for login and getty? Here's what they are on my system: [279]data@ds9:/home/data % ls /usr/bin/login -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 24576 Sep 14 21:38 /usr/bin/login* [281]data@ds9:/home/data % ls /usr/libexec/getty -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Sep 14 21:36 /usr/libexec/getty* I also did a "strings" on getty, and it looks to be calling /usr/bin/login, so I don't think it's not finding login: [282]data@ds9:/home/data % strings /usr/libexec/getty | grep login ppplogin login _login_tty login: /usr/bin/login > Perhaps your FreeBSD and NT modems hate each other? That's what I thought at first, but I also booted my NT machine into Linux and used Minicom on it, and got the same results. I also get identical results when dialing in from another outside computer. That's why this is so darn mystifying. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message