From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 15:54:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982A737B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF67243E42 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:54:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9MMsIuF081928; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:54:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g9MMsIJ9081925; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:54:18 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:54:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Anton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpt0: Device is busy In-Reply-To: <14028928947.20021023011931@list.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Anton wrote: > When I try to 'cat < file > /dev/lpt0' I see answer: > Device is busy. Often this is because you're running the default kernel with the plip device configured. This is a parallel-port device, so it ties up the port. There may be another parallel device also, I forget. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message