Re: mgetty & minicom port locking conflict
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> How do I get mgetty and minicom to share a port? I want mgetty
> to sit around normally to receive calls and faxes, but I want
> to dialout on this line too. Running minicom tells me
> that the port (/dev/cuax) is busy, either as root or not.
> ppp seems to have no problem getting past mgetty.
Use /dev/ttyS? for ALL programs sharing the line.
> As I understand it, cuax are the dialout devices, so
> telling minicom to use /dev/cuax should be correct.
Nope. /dev/cua? is obsolete.
I run diald, mgetty, and still can use minicom. All ports are set to
/dev/ttyS3 though.
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