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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: serial port recovery
Keywords: serial port getty locking cu
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.184150.24344@panix.uucp>
Date: 29 Nov 90 18:41:50 GMT
References: <27545011.21538@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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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,
>wait a bit, call init 2, wait till the console responds and 
>try again it usually works.
>
>If the line is busy and I reboot, the port seems usually to
>remain busy.

rm /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..tty0

cu is broken this way. It should remove stale locks automatically, but it
does not.
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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