Re: Firewall

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

wall = Write All - ie send a message to each vc saying "System is going
down NOW" (usually). /dev/ttyp(x) seems to indicate it expects to see a
serial terminal (?) possibly because of your kernel config. Since the
device doesn't exist it can't write to it.

As usual, I wait to be show to be wrong... ; )

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Richard wrote:

> Hello
> 
> 	Anyone know what this might be about in SuSE 6.1 ?
> 
> I've set up a firwall which runs from a single line in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.  It goes something like "/sbin/somat/somat".  The
> script is in a different part of the system.
> 
> When I power down the machine at the end of the day I get the
> following error message.....
> 
> WALL:  /dev/ttyp0: Input/output error
> WALL:  /dev/ttyp1: Input/output error
> 
> This is completely consistent and happens all the time.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Thanks
> 

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