From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:03:40 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] /bin/RING?? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef7c4a96-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 RING is what a modem prints when the phone line rings. it sounds like you are running something like "rc /dev/eia0", perhaps left over from earlier experimentation. or perhaps you have a serial console set up that you forgot about? russ