[2323] in RedHat Linux List
Re: STB 4COM card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Sat Nov 2 06:51:21 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 06:05:59 EST."
<XFMail.961101061524.tdukes@netside.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 06:48:27 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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tdukes@netside.com wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Just a couple of questions about how you
> set it up.
>
> 1) How many COM ports are you using? Its appears by the rc.serial
> you sent there are 6.
>
> 2) Is it necessary for me to diable the COM ports on my motherboard?
>
Usually, but here, I'm not the expert.
> 3) Will Red Hat recognize the rc.serial file? If so, where did you
> place it? /etc/rc.d/rc.serial?
>
Since RedHat uses the sysV like boot up procedure (the one a particularly
like), I would recommend placing a serial.init in /etc/rc.d/init.d. And then
making symlinks from the appropriate runlevel directories to serial.init. Do
run levels 2, 3 and 5. I would make the sequence number fairly late in the
process.
Something like:
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/serial.init S94serial
for runlevel 3.
Regarding what serial.init should look like, just follow the lead of another
example in /etc/rc.d/init.d, say, maybe lpd.init or portmap.init. Find a
simple example and just mimic it.
> 4) Are all your jumpers on the 4COM card on IRQ 10?
>
> Sorry to ask all these questions, but I'm pretty new to Linux and alot
> of the terminology blows me away.
>
FYI: When linux boots up the process called 'init' runs. It executes
'/etc/rc.d/rc'. 'rc' in turn runs the scripts in '/etc/rc.d/rc#.d' where '#'
is the current runlevel. If you don't know what 'runlevel' means, then take a
quick look at the comments at the top of /etc/inittab. 'rc' will run the
'S##whatever' scripts in numerical order on startup.
Suggestion: leave run level #1 alone. That ensures you have a safety net.
Hope that helps and I'm not too late to help.
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