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- From: bob@dalek.mwc.com (Bob Hemedinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Forcing uucico to hangup
- Message-ID: <9211171001.AA02493@dalek.mwc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:01:17 GMT
- References: <9211170305.AA03090@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- > > I'm having a problem with uucico. If, for whatever reason, I
- > > get a failed login, uucico does not hang up the modem. I
- > > get a message about a failed login in the log file and the
- > > abnormal completion message, but uucico quits with the modem
- > > still on hook.
- > >
- > > Normally, I could just set my inactivity register on the modem
- > > to hangup after a few minutes of inactivity, but even that
- > > doesn't work in this case since I have enabled this serial
- > > port to allow logins. So after uucico dies, the port
- > > gets enabled and starts arguing with my machine over the
- > > login: prompt.
- >
- > Be sure that your modem is capable (configured) to recognize a change in
- > states on the DTR pin so that when uucico drops, your modem recognizes this.
- >
- > If your modem is like most, it's probably merely a matter of setting the
- > &D to &D3 which according to my Hayes manual is to do the following:
- >
- > Monitor DTR signal. When an on-to-off transition of DTR occurs
- > hang-up and perform a reset.
- >
- > After setting this be sure to save your configuration in the modem's
- > non-volatile memory. Typcially this is done via a command like AT&W0, which
- > stores the set-up as profile 0.
-
- It would also help to know which version of uucico you're running... later
- versions of uucico have been updated to terminate a connection more quickly
- than the earlier versions.
-
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