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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:16:09 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Cc: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Terminals
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On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> Grant Peel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles
>> away.  Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out
>> of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it
>> possible to daisychain the machines together using COM1 and COM2 so
>> that no matter what, one can always get to a console? Or am I just
>> wishing here...
>
> if you crash a box why would a serial console still work?

It would still work if the kernel has KDB compiled in.  I'm not sure if
this is what the original poster meant though.