On 06/23/2010 10:26 AM, Thom Paine wrote: > I'm posting this to the list because I am hoping I can do this in linux not > only for free, but also with greater functionality. > > I am looking at this software http://www.taltech.com/products/comfile.html to > be able to read data off a serial input. > > I have a printer in my comm center that tracks our 911 calls. We are > currently spewing the data to tractor fed paper and while not only jamming, > it sometimes runs out of paper and people don't notice it for a while. > > I'd like to be able to read this data from the RS232 port, and have it write > to a file. I'd like to be able to archive the data based on dates. I'm sure > I can do this with cron. > > Is anyone else on the list capturing RS232 data, and logging it? Uh, if you have the serial port initialized correctly (for example, by use of "stty"), then something like: tail -f /dev/ttyS0 >/var/log/logfile should work. If you want to background that, then nohup tail -f /dev/ttyS0 >/var/log/logfile & Never tried it, though. In theory it'd work. See "man stty" for details on setting the serial port parameters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - This message printed using recycled bandwidth - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
