Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:40:13 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system Message-ID: <200609141240.14031.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <200609131459.05492.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <200609131459.05492.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well > when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. > However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was > booted without a serial console. > > I've set the ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys and sigHUPed init. The machine is > still not recognising the presence of the ``serial terminal'' - the > getty(1) process on the server is not bound to a controlling terminal and > nothing is appearing in the tip(1) screen on the laptop. OK, creating a line in /etc/ttys for cuad0 seems to have worked. Will that cause problems later? I assume the problem is that the tip(1) process (or possibly the USB-serial adapter) is not DTRT with respect to carrier. Is there any other way round this? Jonathan
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