[ale] Brain fart about com ports

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

ttyS0 not tty0

cat < /dev/ttyS0

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:52 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> I need to see if a com port is working (/dev/tty0 I assume) on a
> CentOS machine.  I have a joystick hooked up just to generate some
> dummy data to test with.
> 
> It has been several years since I used a com port on Linux and I've
> forgotten how to create a simple test connection.  :(
> 
> Can someone give me the command.  I don't need anything fancy, once I
> see data coming across, I'm going to move on to diagnosing the actual
> application.  (3rd party security camera app).
> 
> Thanks
> Greg