Hanging up + resetting the modem from a script file?

[Cliff Stanford]

In article <6292 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s892024 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
> I need to write a routine that checks to see if anyone is logged on via
> the modem (on tty1A) and if not, reset it and hang it up. This is for
> a cron job that would run every hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas
> on how to tell the modem to hangup and reset (ie: sending ATH0/ATZ to it)?
> I've tried uuchat but this doesn't give the correct results. Any help would
> be great!

	You don't say what kind of a modem but most can be made
to reset on dropping DTR.  It should be possible simply to kill
the getty on the line, thus dropping DTR, and then the modem will
reset automatically ready for the next getty that's respawned.

	Regards,
		Cliff.
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