Trouble with uucp/cu/dialing sharing a phone line

[Fred Fish]

In article <358 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>Also, Xenix does not pay attention to inittab.  It uses the /etc/ttys
>file instead.
>
>Conclusion:  Get the 2.3 release from SCO.  It is a cleanly integrated
>environment in which everything works.  I know it might not be available
>yet, but give them a call.

BEWARE!  The documentation for 2.3 claims that you can change inittab
and then execute "telinit 2", just like under "real unix", and it will
automatically regenerate the ttys file for you.  I naively changed a
couple of entries in the supplied inittab, without first looking at
or saving the ttys file, and ran "telinit 2".  Well, it regenerated
a ttys file for me alright, but apparently the original inittab was
out of sync with the original ttys file, because it no longer spawned
a getty to the console, causing me to think the system was hung.
Panic city (mine, not the computers :-) until I figured out what was
going on and changed inittab and ttys appropriately.

P.S., I still don't know what that original ttys file that I clobbered
looked like.  I don't feel like reinstalling the entire system to find
out.  Also, needless to say, I now have a full backup of the entire
system in case I clobber something else...

-Fred
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