[ILUG] Serial Port Logging

[Adrian Flynn]

Duplex is not an issue as this is a dumb, text only printer.

What do you mean cat is not required?

Thanks

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Colm
Mac Carthaigh
Sent: 19 September 2001 12:24
To: Adrian Flynn
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Serial Port Logging


On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:18:26PM +0100, Adrian Flynn wrote:
> Niall
>
> Thanks for your reply, however the printer concerned is not on a linux
> machine, and uses non standard print routines, therefore it cannot be
> captured at source. This is why I was planning on taking the serial cable
> which is currently plugged in to the printer and attaching this (with
> suitable plug modifications) to ttyS0 and linking ttyS1 to the printer
with
> another cable. The data would then be routed through the Linux machine, be
> logged, and then continue on its merry way ;-)
>
> One possible option might be:
> 	cat /dev/ttyS0 |tee -a /var/log/printerlog >/dev/ttyS1
>

no way would that work, it's a two way thing, it's going to
have to do duplex. And no need for cat in that cmdline btw
;P

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