From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 15:14: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540AC15175 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA30817; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014nb6.san.rr.com To: skalir scalar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial cable login In-Reply-To: <19990922210308.15282.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't crosspost. This is a question, it belongs on -questions. On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, skalir scalar wrote: > I dont need to have a serial console, But i would like to know howto > be able to login over a serial cable from one machine to another. > > I just need to know how to enable the serial login on the fbsd 3.X > box... thanks Unfortunately at this time there is no way on -Current or -Stable to get just the tty without first booting with a serial console. IIRC it has something to do with the way the new boot blocks work. Assuming there is no keyboard plugged into the machine you want the tty on, just put '-P' in /boot.config (no 'quotes'), edit the /etc/ttys file as indicated in the handbook and reboot. Your tty will come up after the boot. Meanwhile, if you are going to have a serial terminal hooked up anyway, you might as well have the console, it's pretty slick stuff. :) Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message