[ale] Monitoring the serial port

[Pete Hardie]

John C wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to capture serial port output of a device onto a
> Linux system and log everyting it sees to a file?
> 
> What I am trying to do is connect to a router that spits diagnostic messages
> through the serial port, and archive whatever I see.
> 
> 
> I was thinking about using a combination of cu and ttysnoop.... Is this the
> best way to go at it?

cat < /dev/ttyS2 > /log/logfile is a simplistic way




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