The NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FAQ

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9.7 Modem hangs under NS2.0 by incoming calls

modem calls, incoming

There is a bug in the serial driver which causes getty to get stuck. The situation arises after a successful uucico connection, subsequent connections via modem will get a connection with the modem, but no login prompt.

This is caused by getty hanging. A simple work around is to have a process run in cron to reset the getty every 15 minutes:

#! /bin/sh -u PIDS=`ps -ax | bm getty | grep -v bm | awk '{print $1}'` kill -TERM $PIDS

Of course trying to connect when the script is running will not allow you to connect, try again a minute later. This fix will not affect on-going UUCP or interactive connections. This will probably be fixed in the next kernel release.

This bug is corrected in NEXTSTEP 2.1 and later releases.

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