Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Well, I'm feeling a little bit dumb now as the source of the problem was > somewhere I probably should have looked at earlier. > > What turned out to be the problem was that ownership of /dev/ttyS0 had > somehow been transferred to root from uucp, and thus cu (running se

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-18 Thread listmail
Well, I'm feeling a little bit dumb now as the source of the problem was somewhere I probably should have looked at earlier. What turned out to be the problem was that ownership of /dev/ttyS0 had somehow been transferred to root from uucp, and thus cu (running setuid uucp) was unable to access the

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Look in your X11 config file. I have seen some systems put a serial mouse entry there as well as whatever mouse you are using. I had great fun with a GPS on the serial port until I uncovered that one. I removed it and restarted X and all was bliss. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:54:21 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL P

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread Net Llama!
On 06/17/03 20:03, David Aikema wrote: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth David Aikema: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? /var/run

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread David Aikema
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth David Aikema: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? /var/run or /var/lock? There's nothing that seems rele

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth David Aikema: > On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: > > >Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? > > Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? /var/run or /var/lock? K -- "It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set f

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread David Aikema
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 07:01 PM, Net Llama! wrote: On 06/17/03 18:54, David Aikema wrote: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? /var/lock ?? Thanks. There was a

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread Net Llama!
On 06/17/03 18:54, David Aikema wrote: On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? /var/lock ?? -- ~ L. F

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread David Aikema
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Keith Morse wrote: Grasping at straws, an stale lock file perhaps? Any idea how I'd go about locating something like that? David Aikema ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc ->

Re: cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread Keith Morse
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cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

2003-06-17 Thread listmail
At this point I think I've about run out of ideas as to what could be causing such an error, as a short while ago I was able to make a connection using the serial port. What I'm trying to do is configure a terminal server, and I need to get access to it through a serial port to configure its netwo