Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:04:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: Phil Homewood <philh@mincom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906100903150.49155-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906100216360.10213-100000@jason.argos.org>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote:
> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as
> >
> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I
> > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which
> > do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process
> > leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine
> > is, uh, less than desirable behaviour. :-)
>
> Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a "cd ~bob" would be
the general idea is that this wouldn't only register as a 'break' when
issud over the serial console, nowhere else...I know, some ppl use the
serial console as a regular login, but my experience is that its painfully
slow and good "for maintenance only"
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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