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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: mgetty dialin fails - cry for help
Date: 14 Aug 1994 00:04:18 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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cyrus@virusdd.GUN.de (Ulrich Cyrus) writes:

>I have (so far) successfully installed the mgetty/vgetty package
>on my Linux (Slackware 1.2) machine. Answering Machine/ FAX works OK,
>but I am not able to dial into my computer - I even get no connect.
>Is this a *known* problem or do I need to do some extra hacks to
>let it work?

Why don't you set debug 
(eg /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 5 ... in /etc/inittab)
and then tell us what the log file says.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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