From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 19:15:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from daemon.kingsqueak.org (cc737825-a.etntwn1.nj.home.com [65.8.90.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEB237B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drmoreau@kingsqueak.org) Received: (from drmoreau@localhost) by daemon.kingsqueak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3Q2FDp22317; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:15:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from drmoreau) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:15:13 -0400 From: Chris To: ben calvert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using my freebsd box _as_ a serial console Message-ID: <20010425221513.A22200@daemon.kingsqueak.org> References: <3AE77EBB.B806DF4A@tclme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE77EBB.B806DF4A@tclme.org>; from rgreene@tclme.org on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:49:47PM -0500 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Uptime: 7 days X-URL: http://www.kingsqueak.org/ X-Accept-Language: en X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try 'man tip' tip cuaa0c That should do the trick. For the Sun admins in the shop you may want to cut/paste that line and alias it as 'hardwire' so they don't get lost and confused. The aliases are in /etc/remote. > ben calvert wrote: > > > > i've got a brand-new 12 processor sun box here at work that doesn't seem > > to know that it's got a monitor & keyboard. i'd like to try to use my > > freebsd machine to act as a serial console, but i can't find documentation > > on how to do this... help! -- __ ___ __ / //_(_)__ _http://www.kingsqueak.org _/ /__ / ,< / / _ \/ _ `(_-