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How to check whether the serial com port being used

 
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boey kean hoe
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‎11-20-2002 01:36 AM

‎11-20-2002 01:36 AM

How to check whether the serial com port being used

HOw to check whether the HP UX server serial com port being open or used by other application
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melvyn burnard
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‎11-20-2002 01:35 AM

‎11-20-2002 01:35 AM

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Re: How to check whether the serial com port being used

one way to check is to see if a getty is running on the port.
another way is to look on the
ps -ef output under the field TTY
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Dietmar Konermann
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‎11-20-2002 01:40 AM

‎11-20-2002 01:40 AM

Re: How to check whether the serial com port being used

I usually take fuser(1M).

e.g.
# fuser /dev/cul00
/dev/cul00: 4135o 4136o

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Dietmar Konermann
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‎11-20-2002 01:41 AM

‎11-20-2002 01:41 AM

Re: How to check whether the serial com port being used

Wow... Melvyn answered before the question was posted. :) Too fast for me.
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