From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 14:08:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F3B16A4C0 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1485A43FFB for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h91L8uIo088913; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:08:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:08:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20031001210856.GB2421@dan.emsphone.com> References: <046801c3885a$a9e028a0$0701a8c0@darryl> <8765j8d6cl.fsf@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8765j8d6cl.fsf@strauser.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Headless question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:08:59 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 01), Kirk Strauser said: > At 2003-10-01T20:29:06Z, "Darryl Hoar" writes: > > > Do you have to do anything special to run it without a monitor (space > > considerations) ? > > I've been using a headless Alpha tracking 4-STABLE for about a year without > taking any special measures. You may also want to enable the serial console, so you can remotely reboot the machine if it hangs on you. I believe all that you need is to add console="comconsole" to /boot/loader.conf, and possibly also enable logins on /dev/ttyd0 in /etc/ttys. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com