ESIX: cu does not detect dropped line.

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <706 at denwa.uucp> satyr!kayvan at apple.com (Kayvan Sylvan) writes:
>You have to manually create /dev/ttym00 by doing:
>	mknod /dev/ttym00 c 3 128
>This creates the device entry which you will then use in your uucp
>Devices and your /etc/inittab file.
>
>If you don't want all of this to be wiped out the next time you
>reconfigure your kernel, also change /etc/conf/cf.d/inittab.base.
>
>In addition to inittab.base, I had to add the following to
>/etc/conf/bin/idmkenv since sometimes when I remake the kernel,
>idmknod seems to like to wipe out /dev/ttym00 (I'm sure there's a
>better solution to this one, but I haven't found it).

Yes there is.  Add a ttym00 entry to the file /etc/conf/node.d/asy.  Here
is mine:

asy	tty00	c	0
asy	tty01	c	1

To permanently add ttym00 add the following:

asy ttym00  c   128

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