tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans) (09/07/90)
In setting up a machine running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 for UUCP with a Telebit T2500, I'm experiencing repeated and indefinitely continuing respawns of 'dialTBIT' on the enabled port (tty1A). It appears that the modem is not responding to the dial program's effort to initialize it. (Using the -z option to dialTBIT also hangs up for a minute or so with no apparent response from the modem.) The respawn-dialTBIT-create-lockfile-quit trying-respawn-dialTBIT cycle continues indefinitely. And, since there is almost always a lockfile present in /usr/spool/uucp for the port, outgoing UUCP calls are almost impossible. The only solution so far has been to disable the port. I assume that, since release 2.3.2 contains the dialTBIT executable and source code, it also includes the improved uucico that's part of the Telebit SLS; it certainly acts like it, understanding and dealing with the Telebit codes in the phone number field of /usr/lib/uucp/Systems. (I have, BTW, tried both serial ports on the machine and swapped cables and T2500 modems. Results are always the same.) If you repond via e-mail, please do so to the address *B*E*L*O*W* and not to the path above. THANKS!!! -- cc:Mail Tim K. Evans at ~OSS UUCP ...!{rutgers|ames|uunet}!mimsy!woodb!tkevans INTERNET tkevans%woodb@mimsy.umd.edu PHONE: (301) 965-3286 US MAIL 6401 Security Blvd, 2-Q-2 Operations, Baltimore, MD 21235