Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to programatically kill minicom without resetting it?

2013-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Jeremy Rand wrote: Could it be the configuration of the modem itself which is leading to it resetting? I believe the DTR pin is usually asserted when a process opens the serial port and it is cleared when the port is closed. If that is true, then perhaps the modem is

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to programatically kill minicom without resetting it?

2013-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: kill -9 will absolutely prevent *minicom* from resetting the modem.  With kill -9 (-KILL), minicom is gone, it can't reset it.  That's the point of -KILL. i've tried this a number of times and have never had any success in leaving the modem in a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to programatically kill minicom without resetting it?

2013-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:10:49AM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: kill -9 will absolutely prevent *minicom* from resetting the modem. With kill -9 (-KILL), minicom is gone, it can't reset it. That's the point of -KILL. But as the kernel