UUCP Port Turnaround

[brandon at tdi2.UUCP]

Quoted from <13355 at sun.uucp> ["Re: UUCP Port Turnaround"], by guy%gorodish at Sun.COM (Guy Harris)...
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| >> You should try the kernel hack on a decent system before dismissing it.
| >
| >I guess it's just the Berkeley philosophy to do things in the kernel
| >whenever possible, even when it's not necessary.
| 
| Oh, good grief!
| 
| Putting it in the kernel (and it's *not* a lot of code, believe me -
| probably less than 1KB, and probably less than the code you have to
| add to the system if you don't do it in the kernel!)  means that, as
| Rick pointed out, you *don't* have to modify "getty" or "uucp" or
| anybody else that wants to dial out.
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I'm running System V.2 (yes, *that*).  The inittab and special init states
a, b, c make life a lot easier.

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uugetty.sh
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tty="`echo $1 | sed 's:/dev/::'`"
while test -f /usr/spool/uucp/uulk."$tty" -o -f /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.."$tty"; do
	sleep 300
done
exec /etc/getty "$@"

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uulock.sh
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:

usage="usage: $0 [-lu] tty"
job=lock
exec > /dev/syscon 2>&1
case "$1" in
-l)	job=lock
	shift
	;;
-u)	job=unlock
	shift
	;;
esac
case "$#$1" in
1*)	;;
*)	echo "$usage"
	exit 1
esac
who -a > /tmp/uul$$
case "$job" in
unlock)	grep "^uugetty    /dev/$1 " /tmp/uul$$ > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
		echo "$0: device /dev/$1 is unlocked or nonexistent"
		/bin/rm /tmp/uul$$
		exit 3
	}
	;;
*)	grep "^LOGIN      /dev/$1 " /tmp/uul$$ > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
		echo "$0: device /dev/$1 is busy or nonexistent"
		/bin/rm /tmp/uul$$
		exit 2
	}
esac
case "$job" in
unlock)	/usr/lib/uucp/hup $1
	rm -f /usr/spool/uucp/uulk.$1
	;;
*)	touch /usr/spool/uucp/uulk.1
	set -- `grep "^LOGIN      /dev/$1 " /tmp/uul$$`
	kill -9 $7
esac
rm -f /tmp/uul$$

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NOTE:  /usr/lib/uucp/hup simply sends an ATZ to the modem to make it happy.
A smarter UUCP or getty or etc. could do this as well.

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/etc/inittab (partial)
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22:2:respawn:/etc/uugetty /dev/tty22 M1200 #Remote Dial-In
ul:b:wait:/etc/uulock -l tty22 # lock it
uu:c:wait:/etc/uulock -u tty22 # unlock it

The only oddness is in killing the existing getty; if there is none, the
program knows it's either locked already or in use.

This is probably adaptable to BSD, given that BSD has a ttys file that lets
you say what getty to run on a port.  The telinit b/c stuff from System V is
just handy; it's by no means necessary.  However, you'll have to change the
utmp-checking code in uulock.sh to check processes instead.

++Brandon
-- 
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