From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 10 5: 4:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.211.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A4B14D36; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA29364; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:04:11 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:04:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Phil Homewood , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message