Re: flexfax: SCO Unix

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 10:13:44AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> ...
> >Yep. SCO 5.0.0 and 5.0.4 systems (and a few others). Only drawback is
> >that faxgetty hangs sometimes (~1 per 2 months), and holds the serial
> >port indefinitely.
> 
> Actually, it's the SCO getty that's hanging the port.  We moved all
> our modems off a SCO 5.0.4 system to Caldera Open Linux Base 1.1 a
> couple of weeks ago and all the hanging problems disappeared.

It's been my observation on my customers SCO 5.0.4 machine that
outgoing data (cu or uucico) calls will very often hang the port.
My work around was to add a few lines to uudaemon.hour to
do a kill -15 on the faxgetty process. Crude but it works.

> 
> I tried several older flavors of /etc/getty on the SCO box because
> there were several postings about problems appearing in the SCO getty
> somewhere around the 5.0.2 release.
> 
> Bill
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