Re: /dev/ttyS1 already in use

1999-05-14 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > In the first instance, fuser /dev/ttyS1 will tell you the PID of any > process using it. Secondly, check it's crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 > Mar 3 17:20 /dev/ttyS1 and that you're in dialout (type groups). Check /var/lock for stale lock files. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTE

Re: /dev/ttyS1 already in use

1999-05-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Robert King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, >I'm having trouble getting my serial line to work on a 486 at home. It > has a working slackware install on one disk and I'm endeavouring to > install hamm on a new disk. Whenever I try anything with ttyS1, I'm told > its already in use. How do

/dev/ttyS1 already in use

1999-05-14 Thread Robert King
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my serial line to work on a 486 at home. It has a working slackware install on one disk and I'm endeavouring to install hamm on a new disk. Whenever I try anything with ttyS1, I'm told its already in use. How do I work out what's causing this? I've checked that