mgetty interfering with diald

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> > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Use of /dev/modem is discouraged.
> >
> > > All programs lock to /var/lock and point to /dev/modem -> ttyS1 ...
> > They definitely don't, otherwise you'd see that in mgetty's log file, like
> > the following excerpt from /var/log/log_mg.tty4c while I do a "cu -l tty4c":
> > 
> > so this is VERY clear from the mgetty log file whether the locks are set
> > correctly or not.  Just *look*.

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> 07/17 09:55:35 dem  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.8-Jul27

Save yourself some trouble and do two things.

Upgrade to the latest version of mgetty. (I believe it is 1.1.16 now)

And for scalability issues (if not for the docs saying do not use
/dev/modem), use /dev/ttyS?

Wes
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