[16000] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.18: modem/kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Sun Jun 28 12:43:11 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:59:29 EDT."
<199806281459.KAA16703@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:42:59 EDT
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Greg,
I don't think the set line failed. I don't know how the error message gets
generated. This is what I got by going to su mode before invoking kermit.
Note the line and buad rate were set. BTW, what would I do to allow term/a
to be used as a console port, e.g. to be able to login to it?
Roger
rar# kermit -l /dev/term/a -b 19200
Sorry, can't open connection: No such file or directory
/dev/tty00: ?Sorry, you must 'set line' first
C-Kermit 5A(185) BETA-7, 27 Oct 92, AT&T System V R4
Type ? or HELP for help
C-Kermit>show
C-Kermit 5A(185) BETA-7, 27 Oct 92, AT&T System V R4
Communications Parameters:
Line: /dev/term/a, speed: 19200, mode: local, modem: direct
Terminal bits: 7, parity: even, duplex: full, flow: xon/xoff, handshake: none
Carrier: auto, lockfile: /var/spool/locks/LK.032.029.000
Escape character: 28 (^\)
Protocol Parameters: Send Receive
Timeout: 10 7 Server Timeout: 0
Padding: 0 0 Block Check: 1
Pad Character: 0 0 Delay: 5
Packet Start: 1 1 Max Retries: 10
Packet End: 13 13 8th-Bit Prefix: '&'
Packet Length: 90 90
Maximum Length: 9024 9024 Window Size: 1 set, 0 used
Buffer Size: 9065 9065 Locking-Shift: enabled, not used
File parameters: Attributes: on
Names: converted
Type: text Packet Log: none Longest filename: 512
Collide: backup Session Log: none Longest pathname: 1024
Display: serial Transaction Log: none
File Byte Size: 8, Incomplete Files: discard, Init file: .kermrc
C-Kermit>
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> Hi, Roger. I don't think this is really a bug, just a case of
> confusing error messages. Your "set line" command failed, probably
> because of /var/spool/locks.
>
> It's unfortunate that you can only run kermit from the modem locker as
> root, because of its UUCP locking support (the /var/spool/locks
> problem). I'm not sure if it's wise to disable UUCP locking or not.
> I'm also not sure what our behavior is under 8.2, where kermit is
> actually built as part of the release.
