Real Fix for Kermit on Solaris?

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From: Bjorn Eng
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 21:51

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Hi,

   I have built C-Kermit 5A(190) on a Sun Sparc-20 Solaris 2.4 machine. 
It runs fine but if I use it for dial-out it messes up the port monitor 
(Solaris getty-like process). Looking through the '.bwr' files  I saw 
this problem mentioned with a fix that didn't appeal to me too much. The 
fix involves killing off the port monitor and starting a new one every 
time you run Kermit. Aliasing kermit to a script that runs setuid root to 
reset the port...

	Does anyone have a fix for whatever Kermit is doing to the port 
monitor? The symptom is this: After completing a dial-out call with 
kermit the port monitor will not respond to incoming calls. The modem 
will still answer but the port monitor will not prompt for a login. 

This does not happen when you use tip for dialout. But tip is a little 
too hard core for some of our users :-) so I'm hoping for a kermit 
solution...

	Thanks, 

	Bjorn Eng
	Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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From: Bjorn Eng <bjorn@toucan.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Real Fix for Kermit on Solaris?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:51:43 -0700
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