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- From: guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA (Muhep Guest account)
- Subject: Re: Dialups: Locking DTE speed and Carrier Loss ???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.212840.21152@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <c+hn00f.james@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:28:40 GMT
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- James L. Paul writes
- > I'm using 0.97.1 and GCC 2.2.2 with uugetty from the getty_ps package.
- >
- [ ... ]
- > Now on to more Linux-specific... With the original getty (from the root
- > image) a carrier loss situation gets handled properly. I.E., the
- > processes
- > get killed and getty is respawned. This getty does not handle multiple
- > connect speeds as well, and does not have a uugetty option, so I'm no
- > longer using it, in favor of uugetty as I said above. BUT...
- >
- > Now when carrier is lost without logging out, the processes no longer
- > get killed. Yes, I have the -HUPCL in all the /etc/gettydefs entries.
- ^^^^^^
-
- If this is not a typo, that's your problem. Using -HUPCL turns *OFF*
- sending SIGHUP on close. Take out the minus sign. (Or use SANE, which
- includes HUPCL).
-
- > --
- > James L. Paul
-
- Steve Robbins
- steve@nyongwa.cam.org
-