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

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 u

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2013-03-13 Thread Qingwei Zhang
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] multiboot liveCD isos on external HDD

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:02:31AM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > I have a setup like that on a 16GB usb key. I forget the name, but it was > a pretty basic syslinux based boot, and it would scan a directory for ISOs > and present them all as "boot options". It "just worked" on the computers > I t

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

2013-03-13 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
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 device is closed when minicom is killed, whatever dr

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

2013-03-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
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 device is closed when minicom is killed, whatever driver is responsible for it may be doing something... I know this is the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] multiboot liveCD isos on external HDD

2013-03-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
I have a setup like that on a 16GB usb key. I forget the name, but it was a pretty basic syslinux based boot, and it would scan a directory for ISOs and present them all as "boot options". It "just worked" on the computers I tested it on, I used it mainly for debian-live and for debian-testing-ne

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

2013-03-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm currently working with minicom to initialize a modem using a minicom "runscript" -- for those of you unfamiliar with this, you can run: $ minicom -S script where "script" is a shell script that minicom will execute, doing things like sending various "AT" commands to the modem. at the en