Bart, When I look at /var/lock there is no such file. But boot.log says it is there. John On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > I have a modem connected to ttyS1. This is assigned to com2 in my > > dosemu.conf file. However, when I try to use a communication program that > > supposedly accesses com2 nothing happens. Boot.log says that ttyS1 is > > locked. How do i get rid of the lock. > > by deleting the corresponding file in /var/lock/ > for me that is > /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 > which currently exists because of my existing Linux dial-up connection > (hence DOSEMU is not allowed to use it - be careful: if another > running program is already accessing /dev/ttyS1 you should not remove the > lock; this only makes sense for stale lock files) > > Bart > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
