From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jx8J9-0004DO-3N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 22:21:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4795E0469; Fri, 16 May 2008 22:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F718E0469 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 22:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from loonquawl.digimed.co.uk (loonquawl.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83ED435A2F8 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:34 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation Message-ID: <20080516232134.0e7ce426@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <558187.73071.qm@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <847198.24766.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <558187.73071.qm@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0cvs41 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEX///9/OBwcKrgODnFG1FTxxqqqxpxGOBwOnA7/1dQOHBxiVH8OABwOVA4Of3G4cXD8PZSwAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAhZJREFUOI2l082L00AUAPAcbLS7isypB4VC8w+Iubl78JDDeAj0UnC91KKIomCL2MEa6CWHQRjYgygLwi4IroQIpSCiu0KlsILOooeuW1vmT1jYHtawsDJOJh/9SHPyQUgyP+a9mZeMovxHqPU0OSimwN2fc4df3Dnzy7iWHL+NMe6xq8nKEEKC7ZvJCbZtEBsPExMMo+cDm61/CppyBtlPZDINCWymimETA0qYzqVCg4Xwe7qEGQJmezO1YR/Og+d2DNM1rtuQ2ZD0ktDDA+zD9HLvbx308eAtZH1C2McJeLrlCtg1h58JcWl1DKhBGR58Mx/+NZ9RfTlOlkVXdt+RfWTVPUS7ur40BtRhePig+cSzqC6iFcFmo3MO752ucWDpmi8xOB0VbmRq3Ltc0Lviao1BMYtKJZ9ra8sCtEshOM5G5r1oMSi2NSqgoMdQVcS/lj1auUXdCVBR4829NUUplconnVc+aEERgJwvAKBas8TpzlkJQRGEXARE5Mve17pKfQj2eIIc6sdjfpHuLMgZQZFswz1eE1EeWT+qj8S4gFUJr91DeV9ZX7e6BQmtYLlu2NDzOUr19iSEJ6aSa3JuLcV93HRXAwD5Eud8W7Q+SIGssJ3gyAfudcOtf4igIjbvy/b34P1GBBkJI3DhMHhfiCArM4kmhKtcjCEcP46+uhM9qKMRyP8ZH/dPSkq8TIPFNJgX/wBV+wZAZEipVgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/GFf47WKFgjlhTvx1byEn=V="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d2396070-84d4-4588-9d47-2ac364704e62 X-Archives-Hash: ec42617461b0ab76b66a1c1a56383c37 --Sig_/GFf47WKFgjlhTvx1byEn=V= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go > > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. =20 > But when I try dialup I get this: >=20 > Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981 >=20 > which turns out is apcupsd. So I have to kill it before I can dial out. > Sure enough, in the conf file there is this: DEVICE /dev/ttyS0. Is this a serial or USB model? My APC CS 650 uses USB and the DEVICE entry in the config file is just "DEVICE" as per the comments in the file and the man page. If it is a serial device, then you clearly cannot have two devices plugged into the same post, so one of them must be ttyS1 or higher. --=20 Neil Bothwick WinErr 002: No Error - Yet --Sig_/GFf47WKFgjlhTvx1byEn=V= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkguCPMACgkQum4al0N1GQNFswCfTTupSttm05Gc4EN0q0DJRyan OkMAnRIc80xoXNa1/fbnXsrjtyBfaXXI =GLAo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/GFf47WKFgjlhTvx1byEn=V=-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list