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Re: Debian 1.3 again



On Apr 12, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote
: Not a complete answer but ...
: 
: I wouldn't recommend using /dev/modem link.  This makes it
: more difficult to gurantee the uucp locking protocol.  Use
: the actual device name instead.

No, if all your call out programms use /dev/modem, it's ok.
And then it's simple, to change the real device by changing the
symlink/link.  (In my experience it should be a HARDlink, since mgetty
won't work with a symlink.  But perhaps this bug/misfeature is fixed
meanwhile.)


    Heiko
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