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- From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: UUGETTY & Lock files...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.061828.27179@exucom.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 06:18:28 GMT
- Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
- Lines: 41
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- Where do I obtain a version of uugetty which functions, or at
- least has the documentation? Here are the problems I am experiencing:
-
- o Lock-files (They exist, BUT they all are invalid/stale)
- Maybe the pid in them is not the pid of the users shell, and
- is/was the pid of uugetty itself? IE, uugetty creates the
- lock file, puts it's PID in the file, then exits, thus
- causing the lock file to be stale?
-
- o No documentation about /etc/default/uugetty.ttys[1-9] Nice
- script, pretty good idea, but lacks information on how to go
- about it. You need this stuff when you're dealing with a
- modem that has the ROM's in it programmed by a manufacturer
- who hires programmers that program in "DWIM - Do What I Mean"
-
- o Why does the manual page for uugetty say that there is a -r
- option when uugetty says that it not an option?
-
-
- Should I go and write my own and do it the right way? Or
- would that just cause more confusion in this effort?
-
- Other than the above, I like LINUX so far... I just got
- TCP/IP to run on a users machine of this system, and I think it's
- pretty nice. After all, you can't beat the price...
-
- I got the whole SLS from tsx-11 about a week ago and made it
- available on The Buffalo Computer Society for download. Got three
- people running it right now, however, they got it because they want to
- be able to call/into and out from their machines... With uugetty
- going crazy it just doesn't work that way. I fear they may go back to
- DOS. That would be bad.
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