got it going. thanks all.
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: > > When I type pon, nothing is happening. I ran plog and got the message > > that "Device ttyS1 is locked by pid 109" > > ttyS1 was working fine for weeks. > > who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life? > > PID is simply a process identification number. What that message was > telling you > was that another process (program) was using the comm port so that pon > couldn't access > it. > > You can check to see what process 109 is by using the ps command. Try > typing a "ps > ax | less" and you'll have all of your processes piped into the less command > so you > can page back and forth and look at them. The PID is the left-hand column, > find 109 > and you can identify the program that it is. I usually get such things when > I leave a > regular modem terminal program (e.g. Seyon or minicom) running in another > session. > > This type of process locking a comm port is really slick -- it allows you > to run > all sorts of programs on the comm port and to have them get along and share > the modem > port fairly nicely. Read up on "man ps" for more info. > > -- > Regards, |Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org > . | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ > Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ > http://www.golgotha.net | ...because lockups are for convicts... > Tech. Coord./Teacher |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: > http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
