From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 12:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04225 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 12:25:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04219 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 12:25:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn@mutsgo.kf7nn.com) Received: (from kf7nn@localhost) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA01026; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:25:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kf7nn) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:22:51 -0500 (CDT) From: kf7nn@kf7nn.com To: BEAUPRE Antoine Subject: RE: Using minicom with a pppdaemon Cc: freebsd-questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i dont think you can run 2 programs that access the same port at the same time. looks like ppp won that battle! kinda like trying to fax something via the modem while being connected to a bbs with the same modem. On 11-May-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >Hi! > >I got a PPP daemon set up in background. Now I can't use fetchmail to get >new mail via POP3, (see other postings...) so I'd like to connect to the >remote host via minicom. Now, if the daemon is running, I can't get >minicom to of anything right! It just seems to "monitor" the connection >made by ppp. Its like I start minicom while ppp isn't connected, and ppp >justs start connecting! And minicom sits there and watches! I got to kill >the ppp daemon in order to get minicom to work properly... > >Any clues? > >+-----------------------------------+ >| Free the world from businessmen | >| Free yourself from your money | >+-----------------------------------+ >Free the web. >Spidey > >visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: kf7nn@kf7nn.com Date: 11-May-98 Time: 14:22:51 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message