On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat.
> I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon),
> I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like
>
> 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success
> 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 wfr: error in read(): Success
> 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 huh? Junk on the line?
>
> However, mgetty manages to send a few CRs through or something which
> causes my chat script to fail (it aborts the connection). When I disable
> mgetty on that port in inittab, it works just fine. The other modem port
> has this problem on occasion too, although it runs a 24x7 connection
> so I don't notice it much.
>
> Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while.
Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ?
I mean /dev/ttyS1 for both... then they should do the locking correctly...
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