Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Subject: Re: ESIX: cu does not detect dropped line. Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 00:57:55 GMT Message-ID: <1990Dec1.005755.25794@druid.uucp> References: <1990Nov23.044733.1628@druid.uucp> <706@denwa.uucp> In article <706@denwa.uucp> satyr!kayvan@apple.com (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: >You have to manually create /dev/ttym00 by doing: > mknod /dev/ttym00 c 3 128 >This creates the device entry which you will then use in your uucp >Devices and your /etc/inittab file. > >If you don't want all of this to be wiped out the next time you >reconfigure your kernel, also change /etc/conf/cf.d/inittab.base. > >In addition to inittab.base, I had to add the following to >/etc/conf/bin/idmkenv since sometimes when I remake the kernel, >idmknod seems to like to wipe out /dev/ttym00 (I'm sure there's a >better solution to this one, but I haven't found it). Yes there is. Add a ttym00 entry to the file /etc/conf/node.d/asy. Here is mine: asy tty00 c 0 asy tty01 c 1 To permanently add ttym00 add the following: asy ttym00 c 128 -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | D'Arcy Cain Consulting | I support gun control. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | Let's start with the government! + 416 281 6094 |