Re: cu

["Joel A. Matz" <jmatz@bellatlantic.net>]

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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