I am still working on getting vgetty to act at my answering machine. It apears that vgetty checks the modem about every hour to make sure that it is still alive. Here is a the output from the messages log. I am not familiar enough with this to understand the "No such process part". I looks like everthing is fine. When the phone rings it spits out about 60 lines of information, but for now, I would like to understand this Can anyone tell what it is looking for or where I might start looking to get rid of the "No such process part". Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: select returned 0: No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: checking if modem is still alive: No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: makelock(ttyS3) called: No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS3': No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: lock made: No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: mdm_send: 'AT': No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: got:: No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: mdm_command: string 'OK': No such process Jan 14 04:08:06 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: : No such process Jan 14 04:08:07 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: removing lock file: No such process Jan 14 04:08:07 nic-163-c168-040 vgetty[2421]: waiting...: No such process John Miller Dain Rauscher Inc. Application Services IS Capital Markets Phone 612-547-7573 Fax 612-547-7580