From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 17: 0: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com [24.5.122.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90E614F21 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Received: from localhost (tbackman@localhost) by c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA21152 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:06:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: kermit problems 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 It seems that if I invoke kermit to transfer a file, and the operation is not completed successfully, I can never get the modem to work again. that is, I invoke kermit, start the transfer of a file, then say kermit dies or I kill it or something mid-stream. any future invokations will never even be able to dial the telephone number... the only solution is to reboot the machine, and then it works fine again. currently I'm doing all of this by hand but eventually I'd like to completely automate the sending of this file - that's going to be pretty damned difficult if i have to reboot every time it fails... Any ideas? ========================================================================= Todd Backman "there are two major products that came out of berkley: Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message