vgetty on USR-sportster: watchdog timeout on incoming message

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Hi,

Mike Holland wrote:
> I have upgraded to Redhat 5.1, including mgetty-voice-1.1.14-2.i386.rpm.
> I found now that incoming messages were cut off after 60 seconds
> when the watchdog timer expired.
> I "fixed" the problem by putting a long timeout.
> 
> Before I go further (without doumentation), is this a known problem?

Not to me.

> Should the watchdog be running during recording?

Yes, to cleanly notice if things "get stuck".

> Should something be resetting it?

I'd think so, but I don't know the inner workings of vgetty well enough.
I think you'll have to dig into the source...

gert

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