Want uucico to work without answering the phone

[Jan Isley]

In article <292 at jhunix.JHU.EDU>, ecf_hap at jhunix.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) writes:
> 
> What I ended up doing was changing the inittab entry for ph0 from "respawn"
> to "off" - that way, it doesn't matter whether the phone-manager's
> colon-comment is there or not - that getty ain't gonna run.  Now I can just
> leave the line set for "DATA" without fear that the damn pc will answer the
> phone.
> 
> Oh yeah - I didn't just use phtoggle 'cause I'm still stuck at 3.5; ain't
> got no 3.51.  I'm posting this for two reasons:
> 	1) if there's a reason not to do this, someone'll find it;
> 	2) other people may have the same problem and might even benefit :-)
> 
> So how about it?  Is this little prank on the phone-manager gonna bite me?
> 

Well, I am using 3.51 but...

This has worked for me for six months without biting me.  However, even though
I do not have a phone on ph0, my etc/inittab looks like this:

:ph0:2:off:/etc/getty ph0 1200
 ph1:2:off:/usr/lib/uucp/uugetty -r -t60 ph1 1200

The default for ph1 is data - no phtoggle required.

Actually, for the last 3 months my etc/inittab looked like that since I 
installed HDB and hooked a modem to tty000 for incoming.  Before that the OBM
was the only modem I used so it looked like:

:ph0:2:off:/etc/getty ph0 1200
 ph1:2:off:/etc/getty ph1 1200

And no problems, AFTER I got FixDisk1a from AT&T.  The problems that I was 
having before then were with uucico and the phone manager having thier own
private war, but this was with 3.51.

Now, if I could just get the Telebit on tty000 to talk reliably to an OBM!

Jan
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