Re: flexfax: faxgetty and internet simultaneously

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@earring.meei.harvard.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, David Woolley wrote:

> > >=20
> > >     mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/modem
> > 
> > /dev/modem should be a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1 for your setup.
> 
> But this is not the same as it being /dev/ttyS1 for locking purposes;
> that's why /dev/modem is such a bad idea an ought to be deleted from
> the system.

It's close enough: in terms of software locking the serial port, the
symbolic link should act the same way. In terms of lock files, they
can be addressed as /var/lock/LCK..modem as easily as
/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1, and it's a vastly easier way to configure serial
port software for default behavior.