In article <19980119.8582C30.E77E@spider.uucp>,
	Job Hanssen <hanssen@plex.nl> writes:
> However, it doesn't have to be created, it's already there...

Only a missleading error message because it couldn't open the tty for
writing.

> Is this normal behaviour, ...

Yes. The default behaviour of tty line is to block until a carrier is
detected. You can change this by setting the "local" flag in "/etc/ttys"
and calling "ttyflags -a" afterwards.

But if you want to use it for dialing out with e.g. "pppd" or "uucico"
you shouldn't do that. These programs know how to handle the serial
line flags properly.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/