It's always better to quote error messages exactly rather than parphrase
them. Since you didn't, my suggestion is more of a guess than it might be if
I knew exactly what you were seeing.
The inittab line itself looks fine, consistent with what I see others using
(I use agetty myself, so I can't check my own setup here). I suspect the
mgetty options for that device include setting a lock on it, and that is why
another process (the outgoing pppd) cannot use the device. The mgetty man
page (http://users.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/mgetty.man.html) doesn't tell me
how to change this bahavior, but that is probably what you need to
investigate. One (ugly) workaround is to use a different device designator
for the incoming and outgoing connections. Another -- harder but not so ugly
-- is to recompile mgetty. THe man page doesn't seem to suggest any other
options, but maybe someone who uses mgetty can offer a suggestion.
At 09:28 AM 7/30/99 -0400, Chris Job wrote [in part]:
>In the meantime, I've been trying to implement mgetty so that I can my
>PC form work. I've added the line "mdm:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1"
>(minus the quotes) to my inittab file. When I initialize so this line
>can be executed, I get a problem connecting to my ISP.
>
>I get an error to effect that ppp0 does not exit on my system. If
>comment out the mdm:23:.... line and re-initialize, I can connect to my
>ISP just fine...
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