Re: flexfax: Getty Again

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, J.B. LaRue wrote:

> I'm still trying to figure out what is going on with getty on my system.
> 
> Running 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 3.1 with Zyxel U1496E V6.19 M modems and a
> Cyclades multiport I/O. I've got an identical system up and running
> flawlessly with the same configuration, except it's FreeBSD 2.2.8
> 
> I just can't get getty to stop "repeating too quickly" and sleeping.
> I've tried everything that I can think of including using different
> gettyargs in the config file. I even tried using the com port on the
> system  (ttyd0) to see if maybe is was the Cyclades driver?!

For some reason, it appears that faxgetty(?) is dying. Disable the port,
and try running the faxgetty from the command line to see what sort of
errors it's encountering.

Jonathan Chen
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