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From: "Titus von Boxberg" <ut@bhi-hamburg.de>
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> I have a phone system that I need to log information from to a FreeBSD
> box via a serial cable. What would be the best way to "listen" to the
> serial port and write those messages to a log file?
Why not simply use 
cat /dev/cuaa<x> > logfile

You might use stty to set communication parameters after issueing 
the cat command.

regards
titus