Re: cu

[Christian Grigis <glove@earthling.net>]

	No offense taken, but I was *not* suggesting to reboot the machine
to fix the problem, merely asking if it *had* been rebooted, as is often the
case for home machines, which would have eliminated this possibility. The way
to fix it is then up to the machine owner. :)

	Thanks,

-Christian


On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:14:46AM -0400, Joel A. Matz wrote:
> Please take no offense, but these are not windowns boxes.  Grep is your
> friend, ps aux | grep pppd.  If all else fails and you have to take it
> down try telinit 1, fix it & telinit 3.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> Christian Grigis wrote:
> > 
> 
> >         Hello
> > 
> >         Probably silly question, but has the machine been rebooted since
> > you commited this "sin"? If not, maybe there is still a pppd deamon wandering
> > about, locking the modem? (just kill -9 it, if it is the case, and hopefully
> > it will work).
> >         If not, I'd suggest trying the package "minicom" to test the modem,
> > it is basically a Telix-clone, and you should be able to talk directly to the
> > modem (ATZ, etc.).
> > 
> >         Good luck!
> > 
> > -Christian
> > 
> > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 04:04:21PM -0700, Brian Spooner wrote:
> > > I wonder if someone could help me with the "cu" command.  I want to use
> > > it to test my modem (my PPP connection is broken).  I have read the
> > > appropriate HOW-TOs and man pages, but am unable to put together a series
> > > of arguments that will make it work.  My best effort produces an error
> > > message about the availability of a port.  I am running RedHat 5.2.
> > >
> > > Let me add a description of my PPP problem, in case someone has any ideas
> > > about it.  It broke when I mistakenly tried to initiate it while it was
> > > active (surely no great sin!).  since then when I initiate it I get no
> > > dialtone and no dialing sound, even though if I connect a phone through it
> > > I do get the dial tone.  I have reinstalled PPP.
> > >
> > > I would be very grateful for any suggestions
> > 
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