Re: flexfax: /etc/getty hanging on SCO 5.0.4

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Bill Campbell wrote:

> I have been having some problems running hylafax-v4.0pl1 on an SCO 5.0.4
> system in which the /etc/getty process hangs after incoming data calls.  It
> appears to be ignoring the -t60 argument which, as I understand it, is
> supposed to cause /etc/getty to terminate if there isn't any modem activity
> for 60 seconds.  I built HylaFax using Robert Libe's current version of gcc
> on a system with the full SCO devsys installed first.

If you don't allready have my patch to compile 4.0pl1 on the SCO devsys,
e-mail me.

> 
> There are two MultiTech modems, a MT2834ZDX, and a MT2834ZDXB, running on
> HI-IRQ COM3 and COM4 ports.  GettyArgs = "-t60 /dev/%l dx_%s" (it took me a
> while to figure out that it required the /dev/%l).

I use the following on my 5.0.2 and 3.2.4.2 machines.
GettyArgs:              "-t 60 -h %l dx_%s"
> 
> The problem is that the system will run for a while normally, then
> something will happen and the /etc/getty process will never die until it's
> killed manually.  /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty is running out of /etc/inittab,
> and it seems to help if I kill the faxgetty process to let it respawn (but
> this may be my imagination).
> 
> Is there a known problem with the SCO /etc/getty in that it doesn't
> actually exit after the time specified in the -t option?  Are there
> other things I should be looking at?

There is a problem with getty on 5.0.4. Comment out any entries in
/usr/lib/uucp/Devices for that modem line and see if it works any better.

> 
> Bill
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