From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 07:50:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA00883 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 07:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00849 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 07:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27619; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:48 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA066455848; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:50:48 GMT Message-Id: <324BE9CB.125@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:50:51 -0600 From: Sean Kelly Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b8Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Lew Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a trick for /etc/ttys References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howard Lew wrote: > Does anyone know of a trick to use in /etc/ttys that will let me use a > modem off of one of the the ttyd lines that currently has a getty line > turned on but is not currently in use? Yes ... if there's a getty on /dev/ttydX, then to use the modem just use /dev/cuaaX. FreeBSD will automatically let you access the modem on /dev/cuaaX so long as there's no carrier detect on /dev/ttydX. Type man 4 sio for more info. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/