Mgetty & Linux PPP-2.2.0a

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Hello All,

Thanks for all your responses. It turns out that the reason
mgetty was grabbing the serial line is because pppd was creating
the lock file on the device at a different location (/var/lock) 
from /var/spool/uucp, which is where mgetty expects it.

Digging further into it, I found out that the lock file directory
is hard-coded into one of the pppd files (pppd/sys-linux.c) and
there is no mention in the docs that this is being done. Anyway,
I have suggested to one of the Linux pppd developers that the 
lock file directory should be defined in the makefile so that
users can set it to the appropriate place for their local
environments. We'll see...

After a long bout with ppp-2.2.0c as well I still cannot get ppp
up on my system. ppp-2.2.0c won't even compile. At least, I have
solved the locking problem.

Thanks,

...basie