From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 13:54:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAE437B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds71-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.71] with ESMTP id WAA08825 (8.8.5/1.13); Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:54:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01009; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:54:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:54:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Vivek Khera Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: effective use of serial console In-Reply-To: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> 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 I have read somewhere that the classic trick is to add an user to your system with "shutdown" as login shell. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: > > I've got a stack of servers at a co-lo facililty about 35 minutes > drive from here (non-rush hour...) and I'd like to make best use of > the serial console feature of FreeBSD. > > So far with my in-office experiments, I have been able to do just > about everything I need. My only question is how can I force a reboot > similar to the CTL-ALT-DEL key sequence on a local console? I was > hoping a BREAK signal would do it, but the best I can do is make it > drop to a debugger. I don't really need debugger support in my > production kernels, but I guess if that's the only way to accomplish > it... > > How do others set this up? I guess I'm really looking for a really > fail-safe serial console. > > Thanks. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. > Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 > GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message