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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Transfer files between PC and IRIS?
Summary: Resetting the port afterwards?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.133954.23052@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 16 Apr 91 13:39:54 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In response to several postings about connecting PC's over the serial
line, I have a related problem.  I have a T-bar switch connected to
ttyd1 which lets me connect either to a PC or to another, much older
Unix system.  Both connections run at 9600 baud, and I have uugetty
running on the port.

When I switch to the PC I can log in without problem.  But when I switch
back, uucp cannot use the line until I look in as root and either change
the ownership of /dev/ttyd1 back to uucp or chmod o+r /dev/ttyd1 so that
uucp can read it.  Does anyone have an easier way to do this?
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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