Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 01:23:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Jarvis Cochrane <jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with open() and flock() on /dev/ttyd1 Message-ID: <19991027012301.A30209@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <381695ED.764A93B@guru.wow.aust.com>; from jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:05:02PM %2B0800 References: <381695ED.764A93B@guru.wow.aust.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 27), Jarvis Cochrane said: > I'm installing the SmartUPS monitoring tools from > http://www.exploits.org/~rkroll/smartupstools/ on a 3.0-RELEASE > Freebsd machine. The UPS is connected to the computer by one of the > special APC 'black' cables. > > After a bit of mucking about I was able to communicate with the UPS > using tip, and was able to retreive state information. > > However, when I ran the ups program, it would complain that the port > was locked by another process. > > It turns out that the serial port is opened by the following code... The problem is that the configure script doesn't detect that FreeBSD has uu_lock. I had sent in patches that almost worked, but I have since upgraded to a machine with only one serial port (!) and my mouse is plugged into it. So I haven't been able to play with the upstools in a while. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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