From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 6 02:02:03 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA00374 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 02:02:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA00365 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 02:01:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA03495 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 01:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id AAA21684 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 00:52:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 00:52:39 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: possible bug in comconsole code... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk well... I have set up a terminal server that has a few ports on it right now... and it doesn't have a video card... so I'm using comconsole (not intentionally)... just so you know... I'm using 2.2-960801-SNAP for the termserver (using devfs) because this is the version my machine machine is... so I finally attached a machine to monitor the port... but I was only getting part of the message... and I couldn't figure out why... I tried some basic stuff like "echo blah > /dev/cuaa0" which just returned a single "b"... then I thought that the port might be closing before the data was sent... so a "(echo blah;sleep 1)> /dev/cuaa0" got the whole thing sent out... with this info... I decided to run a getty on the port... and now... the console messages are sent out in their entirety... is there a possible fix to either "simulate" like the port is open continuously... or possibly just not have the port closed? also... is this a bug? or just an wetware bug (meaning I need to run getty on the port)? just wondering... thanks for all the help...- John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)