From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 12 8:29:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net (smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net [212.1.128.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7358A37B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pilchards.telinco.net ([212.1.128.253] helo=loki.uk.intranet) by smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 163Jxp-0007fA-00 for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:29:37 +0000 Received: from there (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by loki.uk.intranet (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fACCDIs17827; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:13:18 GMT Message-Id: <200111121213.fACCDIs17827@loki.uk.intranet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Andrew Stothard To: Keith Woodworth , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.7 FreeBSD Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:13:18 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: kwoody@citytel.net References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 09 November 2001 8:53 pm, Keith Woodworth wrote: > Folks...weve had a 2.1.7 machine colo'd here for a few years (3 days shy > of 500 days of uptime) and most of that time it has not had a > monitor/keyboard plugged into it. (just ssh in all the time) One thing you could try to get local access without rebooting would be to change /etc/ttys so there was a getty attached to one of the serial ports. On 4.x and 3.x you would edit the line for ttyd0 and change the "off" to "on" (I'm not sure if it would work on 2.1.7) and then run "init q". Then you could just plug a terminal into the right serial port. While it doesn't solve the keyboard problem this would give you local access to the server to change it's IP address without requiring a reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message