[wellylug] Serial Port Data + Logging

[Chris Hodgetts]

I was thinking of doing that, but was not sure if it was indeed the best
way of it..


On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:44, David Antliff wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> > And log it into a file, that can be interrogated for usage and things.
> >
> > I was going to use Minicom and log the output of that, but don't think
> > that it is the best way.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be helpful :)
> 
> cat /dev/ttyS0 > logfile   ?
> 
> If you want to use a terminal emulator (e.g. to set baudrate, etc) then I
> recommend 'cu' (it's part of UUCP) or even 'screen'. Screen can do it's
> own logging, and you could run cu inside 'script' but personally I'd just
> set up the serial port parameters and then read from /dev/ttySn.
> 
> -- 
> David.
>