Palm, KPilot and ttys0

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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: Palm, KPilot and ttys0
/dev/pilot should be a symlink to your serial device, /dev/ttyS0. If
/dev/pilot doesn't exist, then you'll need to create it like this:

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Dayley wrote:

> I can't get the sync to come up getting KPilot up on my ttys0.
>
> -My computer has only one serial port so that should be ttys0.
> -I created a symbolic link /dev/pilot to /dev/ttys0
> -I did "chmod 666" on both ttys0 and pilot
> -When I crank up KPilot it says something like "cannot open /dev/pilot"
> -As root, when I do "ls -l /dev/ttys0 I get
>
> crw-rw-rw-    1 alandd   uucp       3,  48 Aug 30 13:30 ttys0

>
> Does that mean some other process owns ttys0? If so, how do I find out what
> it is?
>
> Alan
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