serial port recovery

[Alexis Rosen]

rprohask at orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes:
>How do I recover control of a serial port?  cu reports tty0 
>not available, ps shows nothing running, but if I call init 1,
>wait a bit, call init 2, wait till the console responds and 
>try again it usually works.
>
>If the line is busy and I reboot, the port seems usually to
>remain busy.

rm /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..tty0

cu is broken this way. It should remove stale locks automatically, but it
does not.
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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