On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Marcy Cortes wrote:
> and John wrote:
> >Do you actually have a /dev/ttyS0? Ordinarily, it's a serial port to
> >which one might attach a modem.
>
> I thought ttyS0 was the VM console - it shows:
>
> Welcome to SuSE SLES 8 (s390) - Kernel 2.4.19-3suse-SMP (ttyS0).
>
>
> sles8 login:
On my peecees and macs, that's what I expect to see on tty[1-6] on
default setups.
Here is the (wrapped) man page for "man 4 ttys"
TTYS(4) Linux Programmer's Manual
TTYS(4)
NAME
ttys - serial terminal lines
DESCRIPTION
ttyS[0-3] are character devices for the serial terminal lines.
They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 # base address 0x03f8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # base address 0x02f8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 # base address 0x03e8
mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 # base address 0x02e8
chown root:tty /dev/ttyS[0-3]
FILES
/dev/ttyS[0-3]
SEE ALSO
mknod(1), chown(1), getty(1), tty(4)
Linux 1992-12-19
TTYS(4)
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John.
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