From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 5 9: 0:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet01-42.austin.texas.net [209.99.40.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173D914FFF for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 09:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (localhost.calcasieu.com [127.0.0.1]) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00595; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 11:00:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:00:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Todd Backman Subject: RE: kermit problems Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Jun-99 Todd Backman wrote: > > 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? First: check that the modem resets on loss of DTR (AT&D3 for Hayes if I remember correctly). Next: what is the result of a 'kill -1 1' after the failure ? Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message