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Re: mgetty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gert Doering)
Tue Sep 17 05:35:15 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 10:11 MEST
From: gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering)
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
Cc: submit-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In linux.dev.net ae4ej wrote:
>I am running mgetty+sendfax version 0.98
>I have installed and compiled it according to the docs.. But I have encountered
>a strange quirk.. When I boot up, I can see that mgetty has control of the modem as witnessed by the indicator lights on the modem..
>When I call in, the "aa" starts blinking, as it should, but the call wont
>get picked up.. the "rd" and "sd" lights both come on, but the call dosent
>get answered.. I am at a loss, and I have very little hair left from pulling
>it out! Are there any mgetty guru's there who may have the answer..
The easiest (and only) way to find out what is going on is to look at
the mgetty log file.
Don't believe the other posting, about auto-answer. That was crap,
auto-answer has to be *OFF*.
gert
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