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Re: sharing a comport?
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> > I know you are not supposed to use them, but how else can you have mgetty
> > picking up the line for incoming calls, while at the same time calling out
> > with sendfax, pppd, diald, minicom or whatever?
>
> Of course, you can't USE them simultaneously - or do you really want that an
> outfoing fax will interrupt your current ppp session?! Each process USING (not
> watching!) a ttyS device locks it, so others see it and don't try to catch it,
> even if they need.
Evgeny, I'm not dumb, I mean mgetty sits on the port and waits for calls
at a customer of mine, and pppd fires up once an hour by cron and polls
mail. my question was how can the two coexist? right now I had to disable
mgetty and that means I can't do any remote maintainance, unless I happen
to catch their machine connected online once an hour :-)
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