Re: flexfax: Probemodem errors?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, George Zeigler wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I'm not really understanding the importance of the stty 0 message.  Is
> this the same thing as serial port ttyS0?

Goodness, George! Please read the manual page for the command "stty"!

The command is a reset command, designed to hang up modem lines, at least
under SunOS and RedHat Linux.

> >Nico wrote:
> > What happens with "fuser /dev/ttyS1" issued as a root user? And do
> > you have another getty or something running on /dev/ttyS3, or /dev/modem
> > symbolically linked to /dev/ttyS1?
> 
> 	I ran fuser for /dev/ttyS1
> bash-2.03# fuser /dev/ttyS1
> /dev/ttyS1:           6244   
> 	How do I find out what that is?  When I do the same for /dev/ttyS0 or
> /dev/ttyS2 , I get nothing.  When I do 
> ps
> , I don't see the PID 6244 anywhere.  Is there
> subprocesses that ps does not show?  ps man page tells nothing about hidden
> processes.

Try "ps auxww | less". That should nail everything, and you can look
for 6244.


> > It's possible to comment out of your probemodem/faxaddmodem commands.
> 	How do I do this?  Also, I'm not following.  What's the problem with
> this, since it is only one of about 40 problem messages?
> <snip>

It would clean up the logs and make them much more legible. You might also
look into the "stty" command for SuSE Linux and see if there is an equivalent
that you should use for that OS...

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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