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- From: dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James)
- Subject: Re: No Controlling Terminal???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.014628.3779@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
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- Organization: CCPOA Benefit Trust Fund
- References: <1992Oct29.222044.3991@mccc.edu> <Bwy5K9.LIz@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Nov2.223617.21724@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <Bx5wqK.507@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 01:46:28 GMT
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- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- :)Read the comments in the Devices and Dialers files shipped with your
- :)system to see if they mention it. Somewhere around SysVr3.1 of AT&T unix
- :)they added a ,M notation in the Devices file, and \M, \m tokens in the
- :)Dialers file to deal with lack of carrier. If your system is more recent
- :)than that you should be able to use them.
-
- I remember seeing the mention of these tokens, but I don't remember a
- reference to the fact that it deals with lack of carrier. This might just
- solve another minor problem I have in that when I cu to another system
- whose line is busy, the terminal running uugetty suddenly thinks someone is
- trying to log in, and I either have to kill the process (for which I
- developed a simple shell script to save me the time), or wait for the
- process to time-out.
-
- Thanx,
- Dan.
-
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