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From: andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: serial port recovery
Keywords: serial port getty locking cu
Message-ID: <655@treehouse.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 90 07:15:25 GMT
References: <27545011.21538@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: The Tree House
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In article <27545011.21538@orion.oac.uci.edu> rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes:
>
>How do I recover control of a serial port?  cu reports tty0 
>not available, ps shows nothing running, but if I call init 1,

Take a look in /usr/spool/uucp for a file 'LCK..tty0' and delete that
file.  It sometimes gets left around by cu or getty.

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