Joe Morris wrote:
On 04/06/2009 08:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
You need the server machine to be listening via a getty type of program configured in inittab, so that you get a terminal with login and bash prompt. Then you can execute "sz" on the remote server, and catch it on the local side running minicom.
That's it :-)
I think there is/was a trick to configure things in inittab so that when you dialed in, you'd get a prompt or a ppp prompt depending on what the client did. That would be wonderfull for your situation.
I have been on the client side of such a setup, I don't know how exactly to configure the server side. You would need to configure the mgetty program. It allows a ppp dial-in, and isn't that hard to setup. HTH.
Joe, I have had ppp working for a couple of years, then the install of Avantfax altered a couple of hylafax files (probably the config for the gettyargs) and it killed ppp, so I was sort of stuck. I'm still working on backing out the avantfax issue and finding out what exactly killed ppp, but in the interim, I was trying to work on it from a remote location over a dialup serial link with no ppp. The dialin minicom -> to whatever the heck answered on the server game me my normal bash login over the serial connection, but no way to initial a remote file transfer from the server I was dialed into back to where I was. You are correct, ppp solves all the issues I was faced with ... no, just how to get it back. More work for tonight. I'll pass along the solution to the ppp problem once I decipher it. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org