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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> >  on a Redhat 4.0 machine, running latest kernel and pppd, I installed
> >  mgetty to answer the line.
> >  FAQ says if I let mgetty answer cua?, and try to call out with ttyS? it
> >  will be fine, but it randomly fucks it up...
> 
> It CAN'T be fine - you should NEVER use cua* devices - well, except with
> setserial, probably. Change the corresponding inittab line to use ttyS*. cua*
> devices assume only one process can access them.

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?

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