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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Unique sports
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:16:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 04:16:16 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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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.
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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