mgetty interfering with diald

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Hi,

On 15-Jul-98 Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Herbert Betz wrote:
>> One of the first sentences in the mgetty-Manual states:
>> mgetty handles incoming calls without interfering with outgoing calls.
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> This is not true on my maschine:
> 
> It is, if you set it up correctly.
> 
>> when the following is started with inittab:
>> mo:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty /dev/modem
> 
> Use of /dev/modem is discouraged.
> 

I use diald in combination with mgetty without any problems. But I use in all
configuration-files /dev/ttySx and not a symbolic link. So you should really
use /dev/ttySx instead of /dev/modem.

Bye,
Dietmar