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From article <385@pan.UUCP>, by jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson):
> In article <5424@spool.cs.wisc.edu> luner@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David L. Luner) writes:
>>I believe that this is a "restriction." A port cannot be set up for both
>>dial-in and dial-out UUCP access. The way around this is to have a cron or
>>at job pdisable the port prior to when uucp is going to try to call out.
>>I hope to have a better solution in the future, but I wouldn't hold my
>>breath.
> 
> But you see, "pdisable/penable" is not the problem!  The uucico program does
> that (at least, when run with -x9 it claims to do that), but then it can't
> open the serial line, because the line is owned by root and mode 622.  I can
> either the owner or mode by hand, and then everything works.  But the next
> time a new getty is spawned, the owner and modes are changed back, and I'm
> stuck again.
> 
> The fact that uucico diables and enables the port makes me believe that
> someone intended for dialin/dialout on one line to work.  I'm hoping that
> I just need to make some special kind of L-devices file entry, or something,
> but perhaps they just never quite got it done right.
> 
> jw

This is just off the top of my head, but ... what about putting both fields
2 and 3 in the L-devices file.  The first is the "ACU" unit device, and the
second is the data line.  Perhaps if you set the ACU field (#2) to the port
device specified in the /etc/ports file, then uucico would disable that line
and use the other for communicating.  If so, then you could, as root, create
another device, say "/dev/modem", with the "mknod" command and give it the
same major/minor device numbers as the original.  And your L-devices line
might be:

<dev_id> /dev/tty6 /dev/modem 2400

where <dev_id> is your name for the entry.  Since the two devices refer to
the same port, but --ARE NOT-- linked together, you can have separate
permissions/owners on each.  And with both fields in the L-devices, uucico
will disable the port that has the getty running it...

Well, it's just a thought -- if it doesn't work, don't blame me!!!

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