modem port problems

[Vernon Schryver]

In article <1991May21.154839.1563 at cs.dal.ca>, silvert at cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
> I have a modem on the serial port of my PI and find that sometimes users
> hang up without logging off.  Is there a way to get the PI to kill the
> login process when the line is disconnected?


Yes.  Use a 5 or 7-wire cable to connect DCD, put the getty on /dev/ttym*
or /dev/ttyf*, and use a modem that can be and is configured to drop DCD
when there is no carrier.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs at sgi.com