Sorry both for the inexact message and the fact that I sent it at
all. Just an error of stupidity in setting up the SysV symlinks. I
was linking to the wrong thing. Duh.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Please, don't tell me what you think the messages said. Show me the
> #@#@** messages :-)
>
> If ttyS0 doesn't use IRQ 4, you might need a setserial in your startup
> rc files before trying to use it. The serial driver is a bit more
> general about what it can support, at the price of being less aggressive
> about looking for standard serial devices.
>
> Try if you can get your daemon to work with the system up and a human
> present to configure things for it. Then you will know how to automate
> the thing at startup.
>
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Steve Cohen wrote:
>
> > I wrote a small daemon last year that ran on a box that was running
> > RedHat Linux 5.2. I wrote scripts that launched this daemon in
> > the proper place in the RedHat SysV initialization process.
> >
> > This daemon basically read /dev/ttyS0 and sent the input back out
> > /dev/ttyS1 and four tcp/ip sockets, and basically worked without
> > incident for a year.
> >
> > This morning the hard drive on which this system was loaded crashed.
> > We got another, installed it in the computer and loaded a fresh linux
> > system - which happened to be redhat 6.0 this time.
> >
> > I copied over all the source files and scripts that were necessary to
> > build and run my daemon, set the system up as I had done last year,
> > and tried to run it.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I now see messages during the init
> > telling me that /dev/ttyS0 does not exist. In spite of the fact that
> > I can see /dev/ttyS0 when I do an ls. The permissions showed as
> > crw-------, which I changed to crw-rw-rw-, to no avail.
> >
> > What is different about these two systems that could lead to its
> > telling me that a device which I can see doesn't exist?
>
> The device special file exists. I can do ls -l /dev/sda and it exists,
> but fdisk can't open it because I don't have any scsi hardware. What
> does setserial say about /dev/ttyS0?
> >
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
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