From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 13:20:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF31A37B749 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ryugen@palaver.org) Received: from primo.bfm.org ([216.127.218.20]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:21:04 -0500 Received: from portapad.palaver.org (unverified [24.217.4.232]) by primo.bfm.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:20:41 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000414151535.00a8b550@mail.palaver.org> X-Sender: rfisher@mail.palaver.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:19:31 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Ryugen@palaver.org (Ryugen C. Fisher) Subject: Re: single user mode -- from afar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000414133951.J4381@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <4.3.1.2.20000414145301.00a85b30@mail.palaver.org> <4.3.1.2.20000414145301.00a85b30@mail.palaver.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:39 PM 4/14/00, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Ryugen C. Fisher [000414 13:25] wrote: > > This may seem to be "real dumb" BUT, I would like to be able to boot a > > FreeBSD 3.3 server about 600 miles from here into single user mode.. and > > access it via its IP addy/telnet to maintenance. It this at all possible? > > Do I need a program other than telnet to use for this sort of remote admin? > >A serial console would make this possible. > >-- >-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] >"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." I can see the comconsole page in the ports set, but have not installed it nor looked at the DOC. As first glance, however, any serial console would have to be set to a local RS232 would it not? and if not, how do you make it otherwise... I am sure this is old hat to some, but to the likes of me it is 'the mystery of mysteries' .... Ryugen, that "Old Frog" hisself Ryugen@palaver.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message