mgetty on FreeBSD

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:47:05 +0100


Hi,

Willem van den Bosch wrote:
> >Make sure that you get the locking right - pppd must create a
> >'/var/spool/lock/LCK..cuaa1' file, otherwise mgetty won't release the
> >tty.
> 
> Dear Gert
> 
> Thank you for your prompt response, I am sorry to have to ask this but at
> the moment I don't even know where to start looking for the answer, so if
> its not a big ask.
> 
> How!

I have *NO* idea. I don't have a FreeBSD system. Check the pppd man page
for something like a "lock" option. Ask some FreeBSD guru.

gert

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