The mgetty ...

[Alex Ongena <Alex.Ongena@able.be>]

Hi,

I saw several topics on the list regarding the use of mgetty as
faxgetty DATA frontend, but as far as I could trace, nobody said
it works, everybody thinks it should work. I think there is no getty
'-h' alternative in mgetty and this causes all the trouble.

I too tried to get faxgetty start mgetty when a DATA call comes in,
but up until now, no luck.

Is there somebody with a working combination of faxgetty spawning mgetty ?
What are the GettyArgs ?

I use Hylafax 4.0pl1 and mgetty 1.1.0 (linux 2.0.27)

I want to use mgetty because it automatically detects PPP connections and
can start my pppd without going through the login process (AutoPPP).

(BTW: running the same mgetty on a separte port works fine, I only get these
 type of errors when FaxGetty is starting mgetty)

Mar  8 12:00:09 asterix FaxGetty[2265]: ANSWER: DATA CONNECTION
Mar  8 12:00:09 asterix FaxGetty[2265]: GETTY: START "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -r modemtor1", pid 2307
Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: tcgetattr failed: I/O error
Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: cannot get TIO: I/O error

after a short time, the line drops and it is all over :-(

TIA
Alex
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