From owner-freebsd-isdn Sun May 31 10:02:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14101 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 10:02:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA14089 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 10:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernie!bert.kts.org!hm@ppp.net) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ygBUf-002ZjZC; Sun, 31 May 98 19:02 MET DST Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:25:27 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #3 built 1998-Feb-14) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 31 May 1998 18:21:05 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Still having problems connecting my ISP; cannot open red. device In-Reply-To: <35716A13.6A68C1A1@post.uni-bielefeld.de> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stephan_Andr=E9_Schmidt?= at "May 31, 98 04:32:51 pm" To: ingalo@post.uni-bielefeld.de (Stephan André Schmidt) Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 18:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stephan André Schmidt wrote: > "Starting the isdn4bsd ISDNmanagement daemon..." > "isdnd [264]: ERR ERROR, cannot open redirected device: No such file or > directory" The device given as a parameter to the "-r" option of isdnd does not exist. The "-r" option can _only_ be used to redirect to an otherwise unused device. This means it must not have any other session running on it including any getty process. This option is most useful to redirect the isdnd output to a virtual syscons/pcvt device which has a status of "off" in /etc/ttys. See also "man isdnd". hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe A duck is like a bicycle because they both have two wheels except the duck (terry@cs.weber.edu) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message