Subject: Re: ipcop and serial ports
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 01:01:17 AKDT
Dave,
I'm not familiar with this file. Hadn't seen it before, but if I
understand it correctly, it's a list of devices Linux knows about. IP
Cop/Linux is identifying the ports correctly. It's just assigning them
inconveniently.
Fielder,
Technically, there is no /etc/init.d. There is a /etc/rc.d/init.d, there
is nothing in it. I have also been unable to locate a script anywhere in
the box with the word serial in it. Doesn't mean it's not there, but I
haven't been able to locate it yet. A lot of the stuff you would
normally find in /etc and its subdirectories has been relocated to
/var/ipcop, and in the case of several of the .conf files softlinks have
been created in /etc.
Jim,
The on-board serial ports are disabled and according to /proc/ioports,
are not being identified by the system. I believe the locations are
merely reserved for them.
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 19:10, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> * Jim Gribbin <jewelrysupplier@gci.net> [2003-04-28 18:16]:
> > Yes it does, so I have a feeling it is being used in the startup
> > scripts somewhere, even though I haven't been able to figure out
> > where. The problem could be that while the setserial that comes with
> > the 2.4.x kernel stuff looks for /etc/serial.conf by default, it can
> > be told to use a file by some other name somewhere else in it's
> > invocation.
> >
> > It also doesn't have locate, probably for security reasons.
>
> I'm also (as of yesterday) running IPCop (1.3). Try checking in
> '/etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x'. I don't have any serial ports enabled on
> my firewall, but the following commandline brought up some interesting
> stuff: 'grep -r ttyS * | sed -e "/termcap/d" | less'
>
> Looks like the 'linux-2.4.x' file is almost straght from this file
> (albeit an older version):
>
> http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices.txt
>
> Hope that helps a bit, got to get back to understanding every single
> step as I piece together a qmail server. ;]
>
> Regards,
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