Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 22:55:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jhs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startslip Message-ID: <199511160655.WAA20629@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <27926.816503133@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 15, 95 10:25:33 pm
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> > > Yea, what is the setup of your /dev/cuaa1 device like, I suspect that as > > soon as chat closes /dev/cuaa1 it hangs up the modem. What is hupcl on > > /dev/cuaa1 set to?? > > It shouldn't matter? The whole advantage of running chat under > slattach is that it's supposed to be run on the fd that slattach > already has open, so there's no question of the hangup-after-dial > problem that would otherwise occur if you did the > open-dial-close-slattach cycle. I know, I've been there too with my > little kermit dialer scripts. It wouldn't be the first time this was broken. I don't ever see it when it is broken as my modem ignores the signals since I never want it to hang up no matter what happens, even if I power my box off my modem stays on line. > Of course, if it turns out that you're right about this then slattach > is deeply broken and has managed to nullify the whole advantage that > was the point of adding the external dial agent capability to > slattach! It also may have to do with calling a shell script that calls chat that is really a sub-shell with the device redirected onto standard in and standard out. The setup I use here is a very simple modem dial program written by Marc Frajola that is run directly by slattach (ie, no shell and no subshell in between). I do know that when I helped someone local setup his system using slattach and chat I had a real nightmore getting it to work correctly until I turned off either hupcl or made his modem ignore the signals, this was just after 2.0.5. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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