Subject: Re: Dial in/out support - sharing a device with getty
To: Paul Ripke <weripp@itwol.bhp.com.au>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 02/12/1998 13:02:46
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Paul Ripke wrote:
> Is there an easier way
> of doing this? Allowing an outbound (ppp, lpr, cu...)
> connection on a device running a getty? I've tried it once,
> and it wasn't a pretty sight.
Why not use uugetty? uugetty, pppd and cu all use ttylock(3)-style
locking; you could also add that to lpd if you wanted.
cjs
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