UNIXPC uucp problem

Mike H. Moran mhm at cbterra.ATT.COM
Tue Jul 5 01:28:25 AEST 1988


In article <382 at manta.UUCP>, brant at manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes:
> In article <103 at cjsa.UUCP> jeff at cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) writes:
> >In article <1988Jun27.202651.9458 at ziebmef.uucp>, becker at ziebmef.uucp writes:

[ much stuff about inittab enteries, etc ....]

> This puts a uugetty on the phone line waiting for an incoming
> connection.  I believe the getty initializes the port to answer
> incoming calls.  You may need to replace /usr/lib/uucp/uugetty above
> with /etc/getty.  Without a getty, your machine won't answer.

Not quite true, uugetty is supposed to be intelligent :-) in that it
will answer incomming calls as well as allow out going calls on the
same port without need of inittab modfication.

Mike Moran 
Contracted to AT&T-BL			UUCP:  att!cbosgd!mhm
Columbus, Ohio				       mhm at cbosgd.att.com  



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