From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 17:26:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23913 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:26:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA09339; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id UAA10864; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:26:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id UAA28921; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:26:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:26:10 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: kf7nn@kf7nn.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Using minicom with a pppdaemon 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, 11 May 1998 kf7nn@kf7nn.com wrote: > what do you mean waiting as a daemon? I mean that PPP is started up as a daemon (ppp -auto) and dials when it needs to forward packets... > > i know that not only does ppp do outgoing calls but it monitors for incoming > calls as well and if the modem gets in an unknown state it will reinitialize > it back to a known good state. hmmm. what is true is that when I start minicom (like when I write these lines) , it works fine sometimes, sometimes not. I think it mostly depends of wether or not the connection was opened recently... Like now it's working fine, but sometimes it justs "monitors the line input and output... It's weird... > i had a similiar problem where getty was on my com1 (cuaa0)port and when > i tried to run minicom it was acting real strange, also hylafax tries to > steal the port by instaling getty and ppp and hylafax fight each other. > > why do you want to run ppp and minicom at the same time anyway? > I dont get it.... I often need to check my remote account in a terminal. And ppp doesn't provide (to my knowledge) the capability of transmitting commands and executing programs on the remote host. > > On 11-May-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > >On Mon, 11 May 1998 kf7nn@kf7nn.com wrote: > > > >> 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. > >> > > > >Ya, this I know... but ppp isn't connected to the port, it's waiting as a > >daemon.!! > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 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 > >> ---------------------------------- > >> > > > >+-----------------------------------+ > >| Free the world from businessmen | > >| Free yourself from your money | > >+-----------------------------------+ > >Free the web. > >Spidey > > > >visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran > > > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: kf7nn@kf7nn.com > Date: 11-May-98 > Time: 17:14:40 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. 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