[SLUG] Dial-in problems

[Peter Rundle <peter.rundle@nospam.altaibc.net.au>]

Hi All,

I set up a friends computer to allow dial-in to it (mgetty, pppd, rh6.2).
It works perfectly the first time. After I hang up and re-dial however 
the modem answers the phone but instead of a login prompt I get the pppd
data stream and the systems fail to connect. 

Mgetty is respawed from inittab thus, 

  mg:4:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 ttyS1 

Changing runlevels to 5 and back to 4 fixes the problem and you can
dial-in and login for one more try before it screws up again. I made
some entries in the crontab to kill pppd every 10 minutes so that I
could see if that would "fix" it, but it doesn't, i.e I think that
when mgetty is respawed it execs pppd straight away but it doesn't 
exec it the very first time it is started.

Course it all works perfectly on my own computer at home.

Any ideas?

Pete

P.S I'm trying to configure this remotely via the dial in which is
proving to be a bit punishing as I can't see what processes are
running when the dial-in fails. I then have to wait 24hrs for the
system to re-set itself (crontab entry) so that I can dial in again 
and have another go, ( % jibes_about_my_sanity >/dev/null 2>&1)

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