modem crashes, WAS Re: Black List... is hanging ZyXEL now

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On Mar 4, 14:11, hm@ix.de wrote:
} Subject: modem crashes, WAS Re: Black List... is hanging ZyXEL now
} 
}    Occasionally, the modem will go catatonic, and neither DTR drop
}    nor "+++" will wake it up.  It *appears* to be dialins that drop
}    early, perhaps even before mgetty has sent the ATA.  My Zyxel
} 
} Sounds reasonable. I had a modem crash yesterday and it
} showed that a dialin user having logged in around noon
} had dropped the line without properly exiting the shell
} (no `exit' command in the .bash_history file). `last'
} showed him "still logged in" in the evening.

This is something different - in your case, the user successfully logged
in and dropped the line later.  In my case, this is before carrier
came up - indeed, before the modem went offhook.

In your case, I'd suspect you didn't have HUPCL on, CLOCAL was on or
something like that.  If CLOCAL is on, a carrier drop won't be noticed
by the computer.

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