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From: Ralph Alvy <ralvy@warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: modem locking problem
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:56:35 -0700
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Justin Zygmont wrote:

> i'm trying this as root.  This is also with vgetty running concurrently.
> I have always been able to do this before so I know it's possible.  the
> vgetty log even says something like "junk on the line - could be a dial
> out program without proper locking - check this!"  when I run the modem
> program and type ATA.  Also, can anyone verify that the standard locking
> directory is /var/lock or /var/lock/subsys?

Note that in dosemu.conf, the default is /var/lock, but you can set it to
otherwise:

# Lock directory (e.g. default: "/var/lock")

# $_ttylocks = "/var/lock"