Hi.. Does anybody know if there is a way to change the console port after linux has started?
I have a serial port cosole (82xx, ttyCPM0), that is used for initial console. After the system is booted, there are times where I need to use that serial port to talk to some equipment. My problem is that I get output from kernel/init and other things that have the console open also. Right now I kill the login process on the serial port, set /proc/sys/kernel/printk to "0 0 0 0" and try to find anything with /dev/console open and kill them. This does work, but not always. What I'd like to do is be able to shut off all output from /dev/console and kernel so only /dev/ttyCPM0 works. This is the script I use now: #!/bin/sh # turn off serial login shell echo 0 0 0 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk sed -ri "s/^(::askfirst)/#\1/; s|(^ttyCPM0::respawn:).*$|#\1-/bin/sh|;" /etc/inittab init -q PIDS=`ps | sed -nr "s|^ *([0-9]+) .*[-/]sh *$|\1|p"` for p in ${PIDS} do #echo ${p} OUT=`ls -l /proc/${p}/fd/0 | grep console` #echo ${OUT} if [ "${OUT}" != "" ] then #echo send kill to pid ${p} kill -9 ${p} fi OUT=`ls -l /proc/${p}/fd/0 | grep ttyCPM0` #echo ${OUT} if [ "${OUT}" != "" ] then #echo send kill to pid ${p} kill -9 ${p} fi done sleep 1 echo "Use ~ to enter menu" echo "~tm changes linefeed mode" echo "~x exits" microcom -D/dev/ttyCPM0 echo 7 4 1 7 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # turn login shell back on sed -ri "s|#(ttyCPM0)|\1|;" /etc/inittab init -q _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded