Is anyone using a USR Sportster 28,8 FAX modem and mgetty?

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Hi,

Bob Hayden wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to include the log file ....
> 
> 10/29 14:29:40 yS0 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.9-Aug17
> 10/29 14:29:40 yS0 check for lockfiles
> 10/29 14:29:40 yS0 locking the line
> 10/29 14:29:40 yS0 can't get group 'modem': No such file or directory
> 10/29 14:29:41 yS0 lowering DTR to reset Modem
> 10/29 14:29:41 yS0 send: AT&F[0d]
> 10/29 14:29:41 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
> 10/29 14:29:42 yS0 send: AT[0d]
> 10/29 14:29:42 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
> 10/29 14:29:42 yS0 waiting...
> 10/29 14:29:51 ##### failed dev=ttyS0, pid=154, got signal 15, exiting
> 
> !!! What does this mean? !!!

This means "someone killed mgetty".

This could be caused by:

 - a bad inittab entry (label used twice)
 - system went down
 - someone changed /etc/inittab and init restarted mgetty
 - someone being root and kill'ing random processes :)

gert

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