Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Unique sports Message-ID: <1263@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:16:16 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1263 Posted: Fri Mar 8 04:16:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:24:31 EST Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 12 One of my favorite amunixments is enabling some non-tty special file as a port. Disk and tape drives are particular winners here, although it's a good idea to mount scratch media. Anyway, in most versions I've seen, the logger can figure out that it's getting garbage, and it signals init to that effect. In turn, init temporarily disables the ``port'', suggesting to the operator that the hardware be examined. The message written to /dev/console has a special name, of course. It's called a port noise complaint. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell