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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:46:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: init
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911030945530.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991103180333.A72444@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Michel TALON wrote:

> I have a strange problem with respect to kill -HUP 1
> In fact i have commented out mgetty on /dev/cuaa1 in /etc/ttys
> and run kill -HUP 1 in order to reload ttys. Even if i do
> killall mgetty this program is still continually respawned.
> It seems that init does not reload ttys when receiving HUP,
> contrary to what man page says and what is usual. Is this a known bug
> I am running
> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 20

Don't comment them out, set them to 'off' otherwise init can forget
about them.

> Moreover i have a second problem related to this one. I wanted to test
> a modem (of rockwell type) under ppp. When i issue term at the 
> ppp prompt, the modem seems irresponsive. For example atz gives nothing.
> However under minicomm the modem correctly answers the at commands
> and dials. Finally i have another modem (US robotics sportster) which
> works correctly under ppp. I thought that the modem was confused
> by mgetty, so tried to disable it and found the above strange behaviour.
> I would be happy to get some help.

Hopefully the above will help.

-Alfred



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