Scripts to deal with A/UX's buggy UUCP

[Matthias Urlichs]

In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Apr6.052123.11234 at mitem.uucp>,
  unger at mitem.uucp (Tom Unger) writes:
< 
< I have a program called uugetty that lets one line be used for incomming
< and outgoing modem calls.  uugetty does the following:
< 
< 	1) initializes modem
< 	2) Listens for incomming calls on modem or other traffic on 
< 	   the port.
< 	3) If a call arrives it execs the standard getty to log the user in.
< 	4) If there is other traffic uugetty "gives up" the line  until
< 	   the outbound call is done.  (it knows it is done when the lock
< 	   file goes away).
< 
The standard getty should not initialise the modem. Why? The modem is reset
by DTR going down, and it won't accept calls until DTR comes up again.
(Disclaimer: Any reasonably configured modem ...)

It also shouldn't look at traffic. If the line can be opened, either there was
an incoming call or there's a lock file, i.e. an outgoing call. If the
latter, getty hangs until the lock file goes away and then dies, indirectly
reexecuting itself. (Cleaning up after opening a line that way is a lot of
hassle and definitely not worth the effort.)

There may be a problem because some uucico's first try to dial the phone and
then create a lock file, thus generating a race condition. I don't know if
the A/UX uucico has that bug.
It also seems that the A/UX getty first writes its login message out and
then looks for the lock, instead of the other way round. My uucico therefore
kills the current getty, and /etc/init spawns a small program that waits on
the lock before exec'ing /etc/getty.
NB: The above applies to A/UX 2.0. I haven't checked what, if anything, was
changed in 2.0.1 because the current setup works.

I'll package the UUCP binaries I have into something resembling usablility
and make them available for FTP. Sometime next week.

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