From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 13:25:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E0EE22B for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server1.shellworld.net (shellworld.net [69.60.117.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF68F324 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server1.shellworld.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17489229A9 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:25:10 -0500 (EST) To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Question about a Remote DRAC on a Dell Server MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <16035.1424179510.1@server1.shellworld.net> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 07:25:10 -0600 From: "Martin G. McCormick" Message-Id: <20150217132510.17489229A9@server1.shellworld.net> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:25:17 -0000 Michael Sierchio writes: > The problem may simply be your /etc/ttys. You need to turn on getty on > one or more of the serial ports. The section for serial terminals on > my machine looks like this: Thank you for a very good answer, but I did not ask the question very well. I completely forgot to mention that I had actually set the first TTY as follows: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.116200" vt100 on secure It worked when I actually had the system in the same room and was connected to the box with a null-modem cable. When we changed the console to work with the DRAC, the FreeBSD kernel messages worked as always but the command-line console which should start with the login prompt does act like it would with that tty line not set. Martin McCormick