Re: [PLUG] dial-in / dial-out

["W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>]

you are right, that is what's in my inittab line. so how can i get mgetty to 
give up the modem so i can send a fax? it seems that mgetty+sendfax is 
supposed to do this, but after reading about sendfax, it seems a little too 
simplistic.  hylafax sounds good, there is a windows client for it also, but 
it can't be installed with RPM if mgetty+sendfax is also installed. is there 
another mgetty (or is that getty?) that i can use instead of mgetty for 
dial-in access? 

thanks

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 07:41 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 20:03, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > i'm using mgetty intitialized via inittab. it doesn't appear to be a
> > constantly running daemon, only started when inittab detects the call
> > 9does this sound right?).
>
> Unlikely.  I don't think init has the ability to "detect" the call.
> Most likely, your inittab line looks like this:
> U0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyUSB0
> This indeed will start a mgetty daemon running on the serial port.  The
> word "respawn" indicates that whenever this daemon dies (i.e. someone
> disconnects), init will start it again.  I can't think of any way that
> init could "watch" the serial port without a daemon.
>
> The easiest way to test my hypothesis is to temporarily comment out the
> line in inittab, and run a "telinit q" from the command line.  You may
> also have to kill the existing mgetty daemon.  Then, without mgetty, try
> your dial-out.
>
> Michael F. Robbins
> mike@gamerack.com

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