From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 15:35:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from security1.noc.flyingcroc.net (security1.noc.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4F037B8F9 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by security1.noc.flyingcroc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07644; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: security1.noc.flyingcroc.net: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:34:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman X-Sender: todd@security1.noc.flyingcroc.net To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Andy Farkas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmaster usage? In-Reply-To: <20000816095756.N4854@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 do: telnet -e "whateveryouwantfortheescapecharacter" ip.of.the.portmaster man telnet: -e escape char Sets the initial telnet telnet escape character to escape char. If escape char is omitted, then there will be no escape character. - Todd On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message