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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!serini
From: serini@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Piero Serini)
Subject: Com??-logged people doesn't exist
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 16:11:01 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Mar14.161101.18601@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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Hi all.
Before starting to look into this, I'd like to know
if it's a known bug, or a known stupid question:

when a user is logged on a serial line, say com01,
on my 486BSD system, he is NOT known to the machine.
This profduces some strange effects, like "who"
and "uptime" saying there's no-one logged on, ps
reports the processes on "co" which I know is both
"COnsole" aznd "COm01" but it's disturbing,
write, wall and talk don't see the user on com??
so they fail, and so on.

The patch should be easy: renaming the com?? ports
as tty?? (as it should be from scratch), as UNIX
never knew about "com ports", just using "ttys",
but I'd like to know if this is possible, done,
or stupid.

Bye all

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