Serial Port Access

[Oleg Kiselev]

In article <1129 at msa3b.UUCP> kevin at msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>The "devices" command is documented somewhat poorly.

An understatement, to be sure.

>you will have to reboot after you change the
>values, because changeing the values in devices does not seem to change
>the real values until after a reboot sometimes.

You may need to kill getty you have running on the port so the new getty
picks up the new information (you can also kick init with "init -Q" to
spawn getty on a newly configured port if devices did not do it already).
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Oleg Kiselev            ARPA: lcc.oleg at seas.ucla.edu, oleg at gryphon.COM
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