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From: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Subject: Re: Help, please, my COM1 driver is missing...
In-Reply-To: fox@cs.mcgill.ca's message of Thu, 16 Sep 1993 02:27:01 GMT
Message-ID: <MARK_WEAVER.93Sep16054029@excelsior.cis.brown.edu>
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Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 09:40:29 GMT
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In article <1993Sep16.022701.17681@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes:
> Hi everyone. I just upgraded from 386BSD 0.1 to NetBSD 0.9, and I am, 
> as expected, running into a few problems. 
> 
> After fiddling around with tip and /etc/remote for a while, I got tip to 
> work....with com0. My modem is on com1 (cables are not compatible, I would 
> need to go buy an adapter).
> 
> So when I go 'tip com1', it goes to remote, and then looks for /dev/com1.
> 
> Funny thing, though, /dev/com1 doesn't exist..Where is it???

Execute the following commands as root:

	cd /dev
	mknod tty01 c 8 1
	chown uucp.dialer tty01
	chmod 660 tty01
	ln -s tty01 com1

While you're at it, to fix a few bugs NetBSD has with /var/log/aculog,
edit the /var/log/aculog line of /etc/newsyslog.conf so that the
owner.group field is "uucp.dialer", and then do the following as root:

	cd /var/log
	touch aculog
	chown uucp.dialer aculog
	chmod 640 aculog

Note that these changes also let anyone in the "dialer" group access
the modem as well as root.
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