[wplug] /dev/ttyS0 busy

Brian Medley bpmedley at 4321.tv
Wed Apr 3 23:05:57 EST 2002


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:08:07PM -0500, J Aaron Farr wrote:

> I posted a message a couple of days ago about pppd returning an error
> with something about terminal parameters.  Anyways, I've found that at
> least part of my pppd problem is that my modem's device ( /dev/ttyS0 ) is
> reported as busy from the time of startup.  So something has a hold of my
> serial port and I can't seem to trace it down.  Any suggestions on how to
> find the culprit process?

Perhaps:
    $ fuser /dev/ttyS0
    $ lsof | grep ttyS0

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