[svlug] modems

[Ray Olszewski]

At 02:27 PM 11/3/99 PST, Alan Dickie wrote:
>I have an old 33MHz with a modem and a cache-only name server.  I was 
>disconnected and found the following line in /var/log/messages:
>inetd[375]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory
>What does that mean?

Probably that (a) you have the ident service listed in /etc/inetd.conf but
(b) the actual in.identd process that is listed is not present on your
system. To eliminate the messages, comment out the ident service in
/etc/inetd.conf and restart, or SIGHUP, inetd.

>Also, I have two computers that both ring when connecting to the Internet.  
>Is there anyway of turning them off?

I don't quite understand what you are describing here. Do you mean you hear
dialing and such through the modem speakers? If so, find the modem
initialization string sent by whatever program does the dialing and add to
the existing AT string "M0" (without the quotes). That tells the modem that
the speaker is to be always off. Sorry if I've misunderstood your question,
though.

------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA           	 	         ray at comarre.com        
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