[The Godfather]

Hello,
Does anyone know of a remote modem utility (aka serial port redirector or tty demon) for OSX? Similar products are ttyd for Linux and COM Port Redirector for Windows.

I emailed the author of TTYD, and he emailed me back saying that he would be glad if someone ported TTYD to OSX? I can't think it would be a very hard task for the experienced programmer.

[The Godfather]

Some call it Pseudo TTY, does it ring a bell to someone?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by The Godfather:
Hello,
Does anyone know of a remote modem utility (aka serial port redirector or tty demon) for OSX? Similar products are ttyd for Linux and COM Port Redirector for Windows.

I emailed the author of TTYD, and he emailed me back saying that he would be glad if someone ported TTYD to OSX? I can't think it would be a very hard task for the experienced programmer.

I tried to find the source for ttyd (apparently in a package called "termpkg", but the only URL I found timed out for me. Here is the URL:

ftp://ftp.linuxlots.com/usr/termpkg/termpkg-3.3.tar.gz

I'd take a crack at porting it if I could get the source.

[The Godfather]

Here are some related links:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ttyd

http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/ttyd

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...aq/serial.html

http://www.linuxlots.com/~termpkg/

http://www.dcbnet.com/notes/0006etherpathredirect.html

Apparently you can download the .tar.gz from here

ftp://ftp.croftj.net/usr/termpkg/

http://www.dcbnet.com/notes/termnet-3.1.tar

If it is compatible with BSD, it may be portable to Darwin, right?

Here is Joe Croft's description:

Package: ttyd
Description: Remote Modem Utility for Unix
The ttyd daemon is fully telnet compatible allowing
programs to connect to any remote device such as
networked modems and terminal servers as if they were
local devices as long as the device utilizes the telnet
protocol, eg. another host running termnetd or a
console access server.

[The Godfather]

I had partial success with TTYD.

I was able to start the compilation by modifying the configure script, and force it to treat Darwin as FreeBSD, by adding:

Code:
elif [ "$SYSTEM" = "Darwin" ]
then
   SYSTEM=FreeBSD

after the line SYSTEM=LINUX.

The compilation threw some warnings and then exited with an error. The compiler suggested that I use ranlib on a file. I did so and the compilation went through.

So far everything is going like described in the README, and I can find the binaries in the new FreeBSD folder. I copied them to the usr/local/bin as the README suggested.

(I had problem 'installing' the man pages but those are optional, since I have the help file in a PDF)

I can't execute either of the three executables: termnet, termnetd, tttyd. Their icons in the FreeBSD folder look like shell scripts and I decide to use the prefix ./ with ttyd. The command prompt doesn't output an error, but there is no effect.

The end application, which expects a serial port (virtual or real), doesn't see any ports in the system.

Should I be doing something with permissions or file types?

What can I do?

TIA