home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!sgigate!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: uucico fails if uugetty not running
- Message-ID: <snr6f38@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <By5Lwq.C20@wizzy.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:21:34 GMT
- Lines: 41
-
- In article <By5Lwq.C20@wizzy.com>, andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes:
- > I have recently bumped into a problem with uucico, and you are such a
- > helpful bunch ;-)
- >
- > It fails if uugetty is NOT running on that port.
- > cu works fine, both ways.
- >
- > Looking at the lights, nothing is even sent to the modem, as far as I
- > can tell. DTR comes active, and then goes away when the script fails.
- >
- > I am reasonably familiar with the modem, and it has worked fine for
- > months. I have recently done an OS upgrade. I don't know if it did this
- > before, as I usually have uugetty running. I did /dev/MAKEDEV tty, was
- > appalled at what /dev/MAKEDEV owners did (chown everything to root) and
- > fixed them so the ports are owned by uucp.
- >
- > Various permissions :-
- >
- > /usr/lib/uucp% ls -l /dev/ttyf2 uugetty uucico /usr/bin/cu
- > crw--w--w- 1 uucp uucp 0, 98 Nov 23 00:02 /dev/ttyf2
- > ...
-
-
- Is the port used for both incoming and outgoing calls? If so,
- it is now and always has been necessary to use uugetty.
-
- If the port is used only for outgoing calls, and if it stopped working
- after installing software, I bet the problem was the ownership
- and permissions of /dev/ttyf2. Uugetty changes them to be usable
- for uucico.
-
- It would also be prudent to check that nothing else is trying
- to use the port, say under the name /dev/ttyd2.
- Did you check that any changes in /etc/inittab were integrated into
- the new version?
-
- Running `versions changed` and then dealing with the indicated
- configuration files is always a good idea.
-
-
- vjs
-