Mgetty not answering

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Hi,

On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 03:59:14PM -0700, Chris Seto wrote:
> Hi, My Redhat Linux box has mgetty installed to answer calls.  It was
> working fine for the longest time but then the computer locked up one
> day and I had to reboot it, since then it won't answer the phone
> anymore.  When I call the linux box from another machine it just keeps
> ringing, but if I stand beside the linux box I can hear the modem click
> on to answer the phone but it still keeps ringing.  Also I can see in my
> processs that mgetty has started so I assume that the computer knows
> that the modem has answered a call but it wont make a connection, and on
> the dialing in machine it still just keeps ringing, does this seem like
> a modem problem to anyone?

One would need to look at the mgetty log file to see what's happening.

Could be just about everything.

gert
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