On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Paul Ripke wrote:

> Is there an easier way
> of doing this? Allowing an outbound (ppp, lpr, cu...)
> connection on a device running a getty? I've tried it once,
> and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Why not use uugetty? uugetty, pppd and cu all use ttylock(3)-style
locking; you could also add that to lpd if you wanted.

cjs

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