DECStation 5000 to SCO box over uucp link

Vic Rice vlr at litwin.com
Thu Dec 6 14:51:35 AEST 1990


I  have  been  trying  to  get  a  DECStation 5000 (Ultrix 4.0)
talking  to  a  SCO Unix PC over a modem. I am having a problem
which seems to involve a misconfigured getty.

My problem:
Upon  a  carrier detect, the SCO box sends a login prompt. From
the  DECStation  I type my login and <RETURN>. However, the SCO
box  just  sits  there thinking no <RETURN> has been typed yet.
A   little   experimentation  revealed  typing  ^J  instead  of
<RETURN>  caused  the  SCO box to accept my login name and send
the  password  prompt. Using another ^J after the password gets
me  logged  in.  However,  past  this point the use of ^J works
only  now  and  then.  Most  times ^J doesn't work either (e.g.
"cd /usr^J" yields "cd /usr: not found" from unix). 

I  am  using  the FAS driver version 2.07 PL0 on the SCO box. I
have  been  using  this driver for several months with no other
problems. My getty line looks like this:
   root 12949     1  0 21:25:40  ?        0:00 /etc/getty ttyFM01 7 

The pertinent lines from my gettydefs file are:
4 # B2400 HUPCL # B2400 CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 7
5 # B4800 HUPCL # B4800 CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 4
6 # B9600 HUPCL # B9600 IXON CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 5
7 # EXTA HUPCL # EXTA IXON CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 6

Is  my  gettydefs  file  correct  ?? Is there some problem with
the FAS driver and the DECStation combination ??

I  might  add  the  DECStation  can  log on to UUNET via uucico
with   no   problems.   However,   right   after  the  password
acceptance the uunet computer spits out the message
      "changing to new line discipline"
or  something  like  this.  I  obviously  am a novice regarding
getty and line disciplines. Any ideas ?????

-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation



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