On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 00:52 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >Do any of you have any perl scripts that do this? I would like to look > > >at your logic either for a serial or usb port. > > > > Based on an upcoming but unlikely need I may have, I thought I would give > > google a look, first hit lays some ideas out pretty easily: > > > > http://aplawrence.com/BGarlock/logger.html > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-SerialPort/SerialPort.pm > > > > What exactly do you need to do? > > > > Thanks for your response.... > > I found this script on aplawrence as well, but my first attempts failed > in making it work. I decided to take another look at it after your > note, and was successful getting Device::SerialPort to installed using a > different computer. I had to change : > > #$PORT = "/dev/ttyD015"; # port to watch > $PORT = "/dev/ttyS0"; # port to watch > > but I was able to make it execute. > > I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report > with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually > incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the > same thing for a blood analyzer. > > Now that I have Tony Lawrence's script executing I can take the next > step of connecting the urine analyzer to to the serial port to do some > testing. > > Thanks for prompting me to look at the logger script again, I had given > up on it. > > Greg > I did some additional testing and I am unable to get Device::SerialPort to install using cpan on Fedora 12, but it works perfectly on Centos 5.4 On the Fedora system I am getting : /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL' returned status 512, won't make I plan to use Centos for this project, but was doing some testing with Fedora in the beginning. Greg