Dial-in and Dial-out

[Michael Temkin]

In article <4206 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> marcelo at sparcwood.Princeton.EDU (Marcelo A. Gallardo) writes:
>
>I have not had any luck making a port both dialin and dialout. The A/UX
>manuals explain how to set up a port for dialin/dialout access with the
>Apple Personal Modem, but this doesn't seem to work with other modems.
>
>Has anyone gotten a port (say tty0) to be both dialin and dialout?
>
>
>	.. Marcelo ..

Yes, I have my modem set up for dial-in during run-level 2 and dial-out
during run-level 3.  I followed the instruction is the v1.1.1 manuals,
not the ones in the v2.0 manuals.  Here are my tty0 lines from /etc/inittab:

du:2:respawn:/etc/getty tty0 mo_2400    # Port 0 (modem); set to "respawn"
do:3:off:/etc/getty tty0 mo_2400        # Port 0 (modem); set to "respawn"

du=dialup, do=dialout
Just remember to change any line with a 2 after the first ':' to be 23
instead of just 2.  Like this:

change this:
net8:2:off:/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m         # set to "once" for mail

to this:
net8:23:off:/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m         # set to "once" for mail

otherwise you will not be running sendmail when you "init 3".  I could
be wrong about this (I am of a BSD background) but the manual said
(I know, you can't believe everything you read in a manual) that all
of the run-level 2 processes would be killed when you enter run-level 3.

BTW: To see what run-level you are at, type "who -r", of course "who -a"
gives you loads of neat information :-) .

Mike.

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