From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 16:33:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283A616A4B3 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net (razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5A043FB1 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from c-24-98-233-138.atl.client2.attbi.com ([24.98.233.138] helo=mindspring.com) by razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A6INQ-0007BP-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:33:24 -0700 Message-ID: <3F80AA4A.5080209@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:33:30 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <44zngfi8oc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44zngfi8oc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 1ee258965991efcb0865379cdb43356e5e89bb4777695beb702e37df12b9c9ef91272d3c7569ba2bffe7a6bab2037119350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: terminal emulation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 23:33:28 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>I would like to use FreeBSD machine as a serial console to another FreeBSD >>machine. Server part is described in the Handbook, but I have found >>nothing about client part. Which program should I use for terminal >>emulation? How can I make, for instance, xterm to communicate to the >>serial port? > > cu(1). > > There are plenty of more featureful comm programs in ports/comms. I use the port "minicom" and recommend it. It's pretty small. It uses a (nice) curses interface, so it doesn't require X11. It also has very few dependences in the ports tree (just the lrzsz port). One thing more thing. The default for minicom is a vt102 terminal. So when you hook up to a FreeBSD server, your first command should be "setenv TERM vt102". Otherwise, FreeBSD will assume cons25. If you want the swiss-army-knife of serial programs, there is always Kermit from the ports tree. It takes awhile to learn because it's got so many options. But once you learn it, it will connect to just about anything. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com