I'm a newbie and I'm trying to set up modem sharing so I can use virtual ports on other machines I have tried to do this by using mini-HOWTO instructions by off the net by using Perl script which is as follows: My changes are at the bottom ______________________________________________________________ 1. Introduction This mini-HOWTO describes how to setup a Linux system in order to share a modem attached to this system with other systems over a TCP/IP network. 2. The Server Side It is assumed that the server is a Linux system with either: a) a modem attached to a /dev/ttySx device b) an 'isdn4linux'-emulated modem mapped to a /dev/ttyIx device The easiest setup I can think of uses a five lines perl script to implement a 'modem demon': $ cat /usr/sbin/modemd #!/usr/bin/perl select((select(STDOUT), $| = 1)[$[]); select((select(STDIN), $| = 1)[$[]); exec 'cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS1'; die '$0: Cant exec cu: $!\n'; The modem demon is started by the INETD process if a client connects to the appropriate port as described below. The 'modemd simply connects the socket handle with STDIN and STDOUT of the 'cu' command and lets 'cu' handle the actual modem device. In case you don't have 'cu' on your system, please install the 'UUCP' package, 'cu' is usually part of 'UUCP'. The existence of the modem demon must be made known to the INETD process by updating its configuration file, usually /etc/inetd.conf like: # # modem daemon # modem stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/modemd /dev/ttyS1 In order to make this work, an entry to '/etc/services' needs to be added like: modem 2006/tcp modemd This associates a symbolic name with an explicit port, 2006 in the example. The portnumber could be any number not already assigned to an existing service. After these changes have been made, a signal must be sent to the inetd process in order to let inetd re-read and process its configuration fi le: $ ps |grep inetd 194 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd kill -HUP 194 Now the server side is ready to accept requests from clients. The correct function can be verified by: $ telnet localhost modem Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. You are now connected to the modem. You can now issue 'AT' command in order to verify the setup: atz atz OK ati1 ati1 Linux ISDN OK ^] telnet>quit $ ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ I have noticed that I don't have inetd.conf, but I have xinetd.conf so I have edited my file as follows: # # modem daemon # modem { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/tcpd server = /usr/sbin/modemd server = /dev/ttyS1 } when I type $ ps |grep xinetd nothing happens so I type $ ps afx |grep xinetd to get 1148 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd so I type $ kill -HUP 1148 but when I telnet the port is not open I have entered everything else as suggested by the article Any idea? Thanks Marvin