Vgetty script problems

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:34:54 +0200


On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Moe Pitman wrote:

> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VI: input:  4
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0  vgetty: Modem did not echo the command
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VI: output: 7
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VR: <HELLO SHELL>
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VS: <HELLO VOICE PROGRAM>
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VR: <READY>
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: VS: <DEVICE DIALUP_LINE>
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: AT#VLS=0
> 08/12 01:36:54 yS0    US Robotics: OK

What is all that ?  Where is that coming from ?  It looks as if someone
is tempering with the modem's fds. Presumably the shell script has
some problems.

Did you try with the latest version of Vgetty.pm + did you redirect
error to a file like shown in the last Vgetty.pm's developper mail ?

> 08/12 01:36:55 yS0    US Robotics: VR: <ERROR>
> 08/12 01:36:55 yS0  vgetty: Modem did not echo the command

> 08/12 01:36:55 yS0    US Robotics: /usr/local/bin/demo.pl: something went
> wrong on playing (ERROR) at /usr/local/bin/demo.pl line 136, <GEN0> chunk 5.

Yes, something went wrong :(