From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 9:58:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37AF37C551 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7GGvud03895; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:57:56 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Andy Farkas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmaster usage? Message-ID: <20000816095756.N4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000815132823.F4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from andyf@speednet.com.au on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:11:19AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Andy Farkas [000816 07:11] wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > I just got a portmaster here and not having used one before I'm a > > buit perplexed as to how one sends a BREAK over serial with it, > > right now I just telnet into and use 'attach s'. > > using ^] and telling telnet to send a break doesn't seem to > > work. > > Tell telnet to 'send esc'. You may need to do it twice. > > > I heard there's a way to get the portmaster to offer a > > service that allows me to use ptys on a box as serial ports > > somehow. Does anyone have any pointers as to how I can do this > > on FreeBSD? Will I be able to send a break if I do that? > > Not sure what you mean. Portmaster docs are online at www.livingston.com. The idea is to send a serial break which allows me to break into the kernel debugger. 'send esc' allows me to drop the connection but 'send break' allows me to enter the debugger. No worries, i have it working now. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message