Scripts to deal with A/UX's buggy UUCP

[Alexis Rosen]

mann at intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) writes:
> [I, Alexis Rosen, wrote:]
>>A few days ago I mentioned some scripts I had written to make life with A/UX's
>>UUCP more bearable. As I got over a dozen requests, I'm posting both scripts
>>here.
> [large excert from the uupoll script was here]
>
>I don't know if you've done something else to get around this, or what,
>but on my system uucico will die if there is a getty on the line, 
>regardless of whether you do an stty -modem. In other words, your
>>		# have to worry about a getty. If not, we need to handle the
>>		# getty by doing a stty -modem.
>doesn't work for me. I have had to use the old method of specifiying
>run levels which getty can exist in, and using init to turn the getty
>on or off. Am I missing something? Anyone else with the same problem?
>I'm planning to post my code which handles this, but part of it runs
>suid root to handle the init, and if there's another way around it...

You must be running either A/UX 1.1.x, or be running A/UX 2.x with getty taken
from 1.1, or... well, I don't know what.

But I do know that I'm doing nothing unusual. I'm running with plain-vanilla
A/UX and getty.

If you look at the man page for getty, you'll see that this behavior is
documented. I discovered this one day when I was playing with 2.0.0b3. It
was one of my favorite features in 2.0.0.

Actually, there is one faint possibility. If Apple's built-in serial port
drivers are broken, maybe that could explain what you're seeing. I dial out
on CommCard serial ports, although they have always behaved identically to
the built-ins, as far as I know. Certainly, the behavior is _supposed_ to
be identical. Has anyone else tried this yet?

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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