uugetty on Altos not behaving properly?

[Michael R. Johnston]

I have an Altos 386/2000 running SYSV with BNU uucp. For my dial-in port
uugetty is running. I know I should be able to dial-out with cu or uucp
to another *nix box and initiate a session WITHOUT having to disable the
port. Unfortunately this does not work. When I attempt to do this
I usually get caught up in the "deadly embrace" where each machine attempts
to login to the other.

Obviously I am doing something wrong but as I look through the manual it
appears that there is no real configuration for this command. Just place it
in /etc/inittab and let 'er rip. 

I called Altos on this one and their response was that uugetty was only meant
for an Altos to call another Altos running uugetty. The sad part about it
was that they were serious. 

Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? Common configuration (?!) problems
with uugetty? 

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                Michael R. Johnston - @NET: mikej at cpmain.uucp
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