Dialer Failed Error on tty2a I/O Error 5

[Mike]

Hello,
I have a SCO OS 5.05 server with a modem to allow dial-in access for
people off-site. Recently, it is acting up and not remaining enabled.
The console message is as follows:

"Dialer failed on /etc/getty/tty2a I/O Error 5"

If I go in and "enable tty2a", this corrects the problem temporarily
but it keeps disabling itself again.

I've been looking through my manuals here and googling like crazy to
find out what that exactly means but I've had no luck so far.

Does anyone know what that means and/or how to go about fixing that?

Thanks in advance
Mike

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Mike typed (on Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:16:29AM -0700):
| Hello,
| I have a SCO OS 5.05 server with a modem to allow dial-in access for
| people off-site. Recently, it is acting up and not remaining enabled.
| The console message is as follows:
|
| "Dialer failed on /etc/getty/tty2a I/O Error 5"
|
| If I go in and "enable tty2a", this corrects the problem temporarily
| but it keeps disabling itself again.
|
| I've been looking through my manuals here and googling like crazy to
| find out what that exactly means but I've had no luck so far.
|
| Does anyone know what that means and/or how to go about fixing that?

tty2a is NOT for a modem; it's for a terminal. tty2A is for a modem.


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JP